AGE EXCHANGE

Registered charity 326899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE EXCHANGE THEATRE TRUST LIMITED

Age Exchange works with older people to improve their quality of life by valuing their reminiscences and giving opportunities for wider appreciation in the form of: - visual and performance arts- health and social care projects- inter-generational programmes - exhibitions - publications- documentary film

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: (1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (2) ADVANCING EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY; (A) PROVIDING TRAINING IN REMINISCENCE AND THE CREATIVE ARTS. (B) PROVIDING AND FACILITATING CREATIVE EXPRESSION INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DRAMA, MUSIC, FILM AND VISUAL ARTS.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Halton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £50k and a total deficit of £52k for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by cost pressures and wage increases. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were calculated at a negative £185k, falling significantly below the stated policy target of £50k. However, the charity remains solvent with unrestricted funds of £957k and continues to receive financial support from its parent charity, Community Integrated Care.

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.

• 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 01929724

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age Exchange (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HARRISS, Sean Richard — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list
• CHAN, Danielle Kathryn — director, appointed 09/02/2023on trustee list
• MUTHUSUBRAMANIAN, Jayakanthan — director, appointed 09/02/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~20.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% 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: 45.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Danielle Kathryn Chan
• Jayakanthan Muthusubramanian
• Sean Richard Harriss

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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.

• AGE UK income £131.8m
• AGE UK EALING income £638k
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m
• GENERATION EXCHANGE income £78k
• AGE CONCERN EAST SUSSEX income £3.0m
• AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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