AGE UK TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Registered charity 1147675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Age UK Tunbridge Wells is the new name for Tunbridge Wells Age Concern, the Charity has been working in the borough of Tunbridge Wells since 1948 and currently provides a range of services and support for older local people, including Day Cay, Advocacy, Information and Advice, Home Bathing, Independent Living Support Services, Individual Service Management, Chiropody, Computer and IT, Excercise

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE BOROUGH OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS: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. PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS6. ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND7. 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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £13,613, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £244,136. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be sufficient to maintain stability and safeguard day-to-day services. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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: Care Quality Commission. 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
• 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
• 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 31/03/2025 (received 17/03/2026, 45 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07956458

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK Tunbridge Wells (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.

• ROBERTS, Candy — director, appointed 16/07/2025not on trustee list
• CHOWDHURY, Lucy Ann — director, appointed 06/12/2024on trustee list
• PHAROAH, Kevin John — director, appointed 26/11/2018on trustee list
• SERGEANT, Katherine Mary — director, appointed 01/02/2017on trustee list
• WISDOM, Sandra Jacqueline — director, appointed 04/08/2015on trustee list
• MOYS, Jeffrey Christopher — director, appointed 10/06/2014on trustee list
• SAVAGE, Yvonne Teresa — secretary, appointed 15/11/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Age UK Tunbridge Wells — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 13/07/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Candi Roberts
• Jeffrey Moys
• Katherine Mary Sergeant
• Kevin John Charles Pharoah
• Lucy Ann Chowdhury
• Sandra Jacqueline Wisdom

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

Operates in: Kent

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 Kent Rivers income £5.6m
• AGE UK HILLINGDON, HARROW AND BRENT income £2.9m
• AGE UK SURREY income £2.4m
• AGE UK LEEDS income £1.9m
• AGE UK STOCKPORT income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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