AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN

Registered charity 1143809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide a range of services to older people, along with influencing activities including: an Advice & Information service, a range of activity programmes including social inclusion, dementia support, digital inclusion and physical activity sessions, community day care, befriending and an integrated care service. We also raise funds through our charity shop and community fundraising.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT:3.1.1 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE;3.1.2 ADVANCING EDUCATION;3.1.3 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);3.1.4 PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;3.1.5 PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;3.1.6 ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND3.1.7 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE;THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: IN BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackburn with Darwen, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £49,837 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,058,886 and total expenditure of £1,108,723. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £316,835, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the organisation as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: AGE UK BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN TRADING LTD Companies House 02965744 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07728630

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK Blackburn with Darwen (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCVAN, Jacqueline Ann — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• BELL-GRAY, Sophie — director, appointed 17/03/2024on trustee list
• DALEY, Helen Mary — director, appointed 14/02/2024on trustee list
• HULSE, Margaret Yvonne — director, appointed 24/05/2023on trustee list
• HEDLEY, Anthony Michael — director, appointed 20/09/2016on trustee list
• WILLDER, Emma — secretary, appointed 20/03/2026

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Michael Hedleychair
• Helen Daley
• Jacqueline Ann McVan
• Margaret Yvonne Hulse
• Sophie Bell-Gray

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.

• Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge income £1.5m
• AGE UK NORTH CRAVEN income £479k
• AGE UK NORTH YORKSHIRE AND DARLINGTON income £594k
• AGE UK STOCKPORT income £2.1m
• AGE UK CROYDON income £1.7m
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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