AGE CONNECTED

Registered charity 270251 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH DISTRICT OLD PEOPLE'S WELFARE COUNCIL

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Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH.

Area of benefit: GREAT YARMOUTH DISTRICT

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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Latest income

£177k

Latest spending

£161k

Registered

1975

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £15,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £176,672 and total expenditure of £160,987. Free unrestricted reserves increased to £66,397, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of holding three months of running costs. The accounts were independently examined with no material matters identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months running costs (held: £66k)

“The Trustees have decided to hold a minimum of three months running costs within the reserves to ensure the continuation of services.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

DERRICK GARWOOD
Paula Nadine Waters -Bunn
Ronald Peter Richard Ellis
TREVOR WAINWRIGHT

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£177k	£161k
31/03/2024	£125k	£130k
31/03/2023	£122k	£124k
31/03/2022	£48k	£98k
31/03/2021	£140k	£141k

Common questions

Is AGE CONNECTED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £15,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £176,672 and total expenditure of £160,987. Free unrestricted reserves increased to £66,397, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of holding three months of running costs. The accounts were independently examined with no material matters identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/04/2022	£4k	Crown & Glory Jubilee Celebration Tea Party
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/09/2018	£7k	Talk Away Take Away (TA TA)
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/06/2015	£463k	Age Connected
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/06/2010	£286k	Older People's Development Worker

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	3	£7k
AGE UK	2	£570k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	2	£13k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£6k
THE TONY AND SHEELAGH WILLIAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£226k
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£211k
THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION	1	£78k
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£77k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE UK BIRMINGHAM LIMITED.

AGE UK BIRMINGHAM LIMITED income £1.7m
AGE CONCERN CHESHIRE income £2.1m
Connection Support income £10.1m
AGE UK BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET LIMITED income £1.5m
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
KEEP TALKING SERVICES income £113k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
AGE CONNECTED	£177k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
AGE UK BIRMINGHAM LIMITED FY2025	£1.7m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
AGE CONCERN CHESHIRE FY2025	£2.1m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
Connection Support FY2025	£10.1m	—	0	within	0.6%	no doubt
AGE UK BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET LIMITED FY2025	£1.5m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS FY2025	£491k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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