CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER LIMITED

Registered charity 1160741 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER LATER LIFE BY APPLYING EVIDENCE OF WHAT WORKS & DRIVING CHANGE IN LINE WITH THIS EVIDENCE. WE HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING FROM THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT PEOPLE WANT FOR A BETTER LATER LIFE & A CLEAR ANALYTIC OF WHERE CHANGE IS NEEDED TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE IN KEY DOMAINS OF BETTER HEALTH, BETTER FINANCES, BETTER RELATIONSHIPS & BETTER PLACES.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £5,200,349 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £25,228,843 to £20,028,494. Per the trustees' report, the charity is funded by an expendable endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund which must be spent by January 2030, and the trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08838490

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “It is a charitable foundation funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and part of the government’s What Works Network.” (source page)

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.

• GODFREY, John Patrick — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• OWEN, Julia Patricia — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Holly Isabelle — director, appointed 22/04/2024on trustee list
• BUTLER, Steve — director, appointed 22/04/2024not on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Fiona Helen — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• CLIFFORD, Alexia — director, appointed 22/09/2022on trustee list
• ERICSON, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 28/09/2020on trustee list
• OPPENHEIMER, Daniel Alexander Pasternak — director, appointed 09/03/2020on trustee list
• BLACK, Carol Mary, Professor Dame — director, appointed 01/05/2019on trustee list
• GARNER, Catherine Lizbeth, Dr — director, appointed 01/10/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~37.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (89% 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: 22.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexia Clifford
• Cathy Garner
• Daniel Oppenheimer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Jane Ericson
• Fiona Johnson
• Holly Butcher
• John Godfrey
• Julia Owen
• Professor Dame Carol Black · trustee of 2 other charities
• Steven Butler

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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Side by side with its peers

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