PLYMOUTH AGE CONCERN

Registered charity 281820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE UK PLYMOUTH

Plymouth Age Concern (known as Age UK Plymouth) exists to care for and work with people over the age of 50 and their carers in and around the City of Plymouth to improve the quality of their life through the promotion of choice, opportunity and independence.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF OLDER PEOPLE AND DISABLED PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH BY ADVANCING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS, INFIRMITY AND SICKNESS AND ANY OTHER OBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WHICH MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: CITY OF PLYMOUTH

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

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £302,851 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by charitable activity costs exceeding incoming resources. However, the trustees report that net current assets have increased to £134,410 and cash flow has improved, leading to a conclusion that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01499927
• Trading subsidiary: PLYMOUTH 50+ LTD Companies House 08350229

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.

• JUETT, Laura — director, appointed 08/04/2026on trustee list
• O'CONNOR, Donna Claire — director, appointed 18/09/2025on trustee list
• ROBB, Neill Patrick Ernest — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• BURROUGHS, Peter Hugh — director, appointed 14/10/2020on trustee list
• BOMBIERI, Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/10/2018on trustee list
• HARDING, Elizabeth Mary — secretary, appointed 12/02/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Plymouth Age Concern — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 06/09/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Donna Claire O'Connor
• Eliott Watts
• Elizabeth Bombieri
• Laura Juett
• Neill Robb Mr
• PETER BURROUGHS

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE CONCERN BOURNEMOUTH.

• AGE CONCERN BOURNEMOUTH income £905k
• AGE UK income £131.8m
• AGE UK LONDON income £119k
• AGE UK PORTSMOUTH income £852k
• AGE CONCERN GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £998k
• AGE CONCERN EPSOM & EWELL income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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