AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON

Registered charity 517902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL

Provide services and activities for older people.Campaigns with and advocates on behalf of older people.Supports the development of older peoples organisations.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE GENERAL GOOD OF ALL OLD PEOPLE IN ANY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA BUT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON NORTH MERSEYSIDE MEANING LIVERPOOL, SEFTON AND ALL AREA NORTH OF THE RIVER MERSEY MAKING GIFTS OF SUMS OF MONEY AND GOODS TO SUCH OLD PEOPLE, PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION, DEVELOPING PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT, FURTHER HEALTH, RELIEVING POVERTY, DISTRESS OR SICKNESS OR PURSUING ANY OBJECT WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND TO ASSIST THE WORK OF STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN PURSUING THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION.(2) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND TO THAT END, TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION WHEREVER THEY MAY OPERATE BUT WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON NORTH MERSEYSIDE.

Area of benefit: ANY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA BUT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON NORTH MERSEYSIDE MEANING LIVERPOOL, SEFTON AND ALL AREAS NORTH OF THE RIVER MERSEY.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £121,497 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,156,423 against expenditure of £2,287,672. The trustees report that the financial position remains in deficit but confirm the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £528,006, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of £500,000 to £1,000,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 09/02/2023, 9 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02002499 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• LOWE, Rupert William Whitaker — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• CAWDRON, Keith William — director, appointed 11/10/2016on trustee list
• RAVENSCROFT, Kenneth James — director, appointed 10/06/1999not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

CQC provider record: Age Concern Liverpool & Sefton — Registered, 6 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 14/08/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• The Hamlets: Requires improvement (12/09/2023) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rupert William Whitaker Lowechair
• KEITH CAWDRON
• KEN RAVENSCROFT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

• AGE CONCERN GILLINGHAM income £53k
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• AGE CONCERN MANCHESTER income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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