AGE UK BARNSLEY

Registered charity 1144123 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's principle aim is to support and/or improve the quality of life of Barnsley's older population. In carrying out this objective the charity provides support and services, in particular for older people who are disadvantaged through ill health, disability, social exclusion or poverty. The charity also raises awareness of later life issues, influences local provision and campaigns.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY (THE "OBJECTS") 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 THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BARNSLEY, SOUTH YORKSHIRE ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"):-1) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE2) ADVANCING EDUCATION3) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL)4) PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY5) ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND6) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDETHE 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £152,447 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to a reduction in grant income. Per the trustees' report, the charity utilized accumulated reserves to fund this deficit, resulting in total reserves of £728,273 at year-end. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: AGE UK BARNSLEY (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 02913458 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07759461

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tricia Watters — Chair (source)
• Emily Hall — Head of Operations – Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• GRAINGER, Gillian — director, appointed 05/08/2026on trustee list
• CHARLESWORTH, Colin — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• NORTH, Ian Reginald — director, appointed 01/06/2025on trustee list
• WATTERS, Patricia Mary — director, appointed 08/12/2020on trustee list
• FROST, Robert, Cllr — director, appointed 15/10/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PATRICIA WATTERSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cllr Robert Frost
• Colin Charlesworth
• Gillian Grainger
• Ian Reginald North

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

• AGE UK income £131.8m
• AGE UK SOMERSET income £948k
• AGE UK EALING income £638k
• AGE UK HOUNSLOW income £339k
• AGE UK TAMESIDE income £630k
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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