AGE UK DORCHESTER LTD

Registered charity 1142519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE UK DORCHESTER, Age UK North South and West Dorset

The core purpose of Age UK Dorchester is to support older people to live in their own homes for as long as they want and ensure that the voices of older people in North, South and West Dorset are collectively and individually heard and responded to. We offer a range of services including homesupport, handyperson, information and advice, befriending, social activities and dementia therapy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY (THE ÔÇ£OBJECTSÔÇØ) IS ESTABLISHED AND TO WHICH IT IS SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE IN AND AROUND DORSET4.1. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE;4.2. ADVANCING EDUCATION;4.3. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);4.4. PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;4.5. PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;4.6. ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND4.7. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE]THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational deficit of £231,139 for the year ended 30 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £558,558 to £423,560. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash and net current assets to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 11/06/2023, 131 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK North, South & West Dorset (Age UK NSWD) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Department for Work and Pensions — “The Household Support Fund (HSF) is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATT SMITHchair
• HELEN PALMER
• Jane House
• ROGER MAUGHAN

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE UK DONCASTER.

• AGE UK DONCASTER income £1.6m
• AGE UK SOMERSET income £948k
• Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge income £1.5m
• AGE UK income £131.8m
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m
• AGE UK NORTH YORKSHIRE AND DARLINGTON income £594k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.