RE-ENGAGE LTD

Registered charity 1146149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONTACT THE ELDERLY, CONTACT THE ELDERLY LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC039377 (OSCR)

Re-engage aims to relieve the loneliness and isolation of socially isolated older people by developing intergenerational groups that meet regularly and where older people can get to know peers and other people in their communities. Volunteers provide support through driving the older people to the group's social gatherings and making sure that the group meets regularly and by hosting the groups.

Objects

1. TO ENCOURAGE OLD PEOPLE LIVING ALONE TO DEVELOP SOCIAL INTERESTS BY BRINGING COMPANIONSHIP INTO THEIR LIVES; 2. TO HELP SUCH PEOPLE TO ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH THOSE WHO ARE SIMILARLY PLACED; 3. TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEVOTE SOME OF THEIR SPARE TIME TO THESE PURPOSES.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £137,018 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by increased expenditure on staff and designated growth costs. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £733,464 remain sufficient to cover three months of budgeted expenditure, and the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Re-engage (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Mark Uptonchair
• Alan Stewart Gilfillan
• Amy Catherine Cashman
• Andrew Christopher Stylianou · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew David Christopher Seed
• CHRISTIAN GROBEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Paul Hicks
• John Anthony Langford
• Jonathan Gilbert Waite
• Martha Louise Russell Beith
• Professor Thomas Mark Jones
• Sean Hickey
• Stephanie Claire Grace Hutton
• Sue Scholes

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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