THE UNIVERSAL BENEFICENT SOCIETY

Registered charity 220978 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UBS

UBS merged with Independent Age in 2011 to provide a national information and advice service for older people, their families and carers, on social care, welfare benefits and befriending. This service is integrated with our local volunteers support. We use the knowledge we gain from providing our services to help influence policy and practice.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN VARIOUS WAYS THOSE IN NECESSITY, OF GOOD CHARACTER WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASS, NATIONALITY OR SECT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

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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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (05/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending