AGE UK BROMSGROVE REDDITCH AND WYRE FOREST

Registered charity 1165891 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Age UK North Worcestershire

Provision of services for older people in the Council areas of Wyre Forest, Bromsgrove and Redditch.Services include Help at Home, Befriending, Social Activities, Information and Advice.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICCH THE CIO (THE "OBJECTS") IS ESTABLISHED AND TO WHICH IT IS SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR IN AND AROUND THE AREA OF BENEFIT:1) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE2) ADVANCING EDUCATION FOR OLDER PEOPLE3) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL)4) PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN RELATION TO OLDER PEOPLE5) ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE AND6) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHICH MAY BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OTHER THAN OLDER PEOPLE) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE WHERE SUCH PURPOSES ARE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ALIGNED TO OR FURTHER ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a planned deficit of £73,040 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,271,846 and total expenditure of £1,344,886. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £956,932, which is below the stated policy target of three months' worth of running costs available in free reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited. 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK North Worcestershire (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Amanda Allen — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (57% 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: 69.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Jonathan Abraham Shapirochair
• Adam Christopher McLaughlin
• Gail Malkin
• James Owen Godsall
• Lucy Chatwin
• Luke William Townsend
• Lynsey Victoria Breeze
• Shirley Anne Webb

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

Operates in: Shropshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities.

• AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities income £2.8m
• AGE UK SHROPSHIRE TELFORD & WREKIN income £2.9m
• AGE UK COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE income £4.7m
• AGE UK REDBRIDGE, BARKING AND HAVERING LTD income £1.2m
• AGE UK BRISTOL income £1.0m
• THE UNITED CHARITIES income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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