AGE ALIVE

Registered charity 1172561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWPORT BME 50+ NETWORK

To develop the capacity and skills of members of BME Over 50s of social disadvantage community of Newport and District in such a way that they are better able to identify and help to meet their needs: In Creative Writing, Performing Art, Story-telling, Choir singing, Handcraft, Walking, Swimming, Healthy eating, Exercise, enabling them to participate more fully in society.

Objects

I) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 50 YEARS) FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY II) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR ARTS, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £2,881 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £15,456. The trustees confirm that assets are adequate to meet obligations, although the charity is entirely dependent on continuing grant aid for its going concern status.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery — “The eighteen-month project was run by SEWREC and supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund .” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rahila Hamidchair
• BILQUIS CHOHAN
• Cordelia Okwusogu
• Elaine Harris
• Farzana Ali
• Jehan Ara Khan
• May Laida
• RAKHEL SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roy Grant
• Victoria Salas Senese
• YASMIN JATHWA

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

Operates in: Monmouthshire · Newport City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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