SEARCH: SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE CIO

Registered charity 1159907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEARCH

Promoting and protecting the welfare and wellbeing of older people in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE, AND THOSE PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF PREMATURE AGEING, RESIDING IN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS DEEMED CHARITABLE WITHIN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £19k for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £761,547 and total expenditure of £742,809. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £237,247, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately four months of running costs against their policy target of 3 to 6 months.

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.

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)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jenefer Bellchair
• Catherine Winfield · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Frank Lai
• Keith John Williamson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Linda Woodcock
• Mark Terence Hardy
• Michael Scoular
• RUTH TAYLOR

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ELDERS COUNCIL OF NEWCASTLE LIMITED.

• THE ELDERS COUNCIL OF NEWCASTLE LIMITED income £83k
• SUPPORTING OLDER PEOPLE CIO income £166k
• ABBEYFIELD NORTHALLERTON CIO income £316k
• Age UK Newcastle and North Tyneside income £10.3m
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• NORTH EAST DEMENTIA CARE (SUNDERLAND) CIO income £328k

Side by side with its peers

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