AGE CONCERN TYNESIDE SOUTH

Registered charity 1168807 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

At Age Concern Tyneside South (ACTS), we believe in a world where everyone can love life. We are here to inspire, enable and support the older people of South Tyneside to help people to make the most of life.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · 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 achieved an overall surplus of £13,011 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Total unrestricted funds stood at £679,237, which the trustees' reserves policy aims to maintain at a level covering core functions and commitments for three months. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit Partners Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10294887

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.

• BRIMER, Ian William — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• ADAMS, Margaret — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• PUECH, Judith — director, appointed 03/02/2022on trustee list
• TROLLOPE, Ann — director, appointed 01/08/2021on trustee list
• KAIER, Norman Mohammed — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• GILLIES, Roderick — director, appointed 11/10/2018on trustee list
• WARD, Ian Cameron — director, appointed 20/02/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £370k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann trollope · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cameron Ward
• Ian Brimer
• Judith Puech
• Margaret Adams
• Norman Kaier
• Roderick Gillies

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

Operates in: South Tyneside

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
• AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON income £2.2m
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £2.9m
• AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON income £2.2m
• AGE CONCERN NORFOLK income £1.0m
• INSPIRE SOUTH TYNESIDE income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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