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.

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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.

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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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 Newcastle and North Tyneside.

• Age UK Newcastle and North Tyneside income £10.3m
• Forum CIO income £2.1m
• NORTH BENWELL YOUTH PROJECT CIO income £179k
• HEALTHWORKS NEWCASTLE income £2.4m
• NEWCASTLE BENFIELD JUNIORS FOOTBALL CLUB income £253k
• CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO income £763k

Side by side with its peers

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