Age Connects West Midlands

Registered charity 518610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM AGE CONCERN

Age Concern Birmingham is the foremost voluntary agency supporting older people, their families and carers. The services provided include, but are not exclusive to, day centres, luncheon clubs, carers support services, befriending schemes, specialist support services (grants and advice service, and debt counselling), information, tradesperson and handyman directory and volunteer schemes.

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Latest income
£2.7m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and a date, with no financial data, narrative, or accounts content. Therefore, no assessment of financial health can be made based on the text provided.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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

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

Total income
£2.7m
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£178k
Reserves (reported)
£2.0m
Employees
70

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.7m£2.5m
31/03/2024£2.5m£2.2m
31/03/2023£2.2m£1.9m
31/03/2022£2.1m£1.6m
31/03/2021£2.0m£1.6m

Common questions

Is Age Connects West Midlands financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only Docusign Envelope IDs and a date, with no financial data, narrative, or accounts content. Therefore, no assessment of financial health can be made based on the text provided.

Who funds Age Connects West Midlands?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Age Connects West Midlands as a grant recipient include THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE GRIMMITT TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£3kCommunity projects and Integration
THE GRIMMITT TRUSTFY2022£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Birmingham City Council15/03/2023£10kAge Concern Birmingham - Friendship Coordinator
Birmingham City Council22/07/2022£3kDiamond Club
Birmingham City Council15/03/2022£9kACB Befriending Group
Birmingham City Council22/03/2021£4kCommunity Activity restart
Birmingham City Council01/03/2021£5kMoorfield C19 Response
Birmingham City Council01/11/2020£5kMoorfield C19 Response
Birmingham City Council10/06/2020£10kMoorfield C19 Response
The National Lottery Community Fund22/05/2020£10kCOVID19 Stay at Home
The National Lottery Community Fund20/03/2020£111kCommunitea Too
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/08/2019£10k"I Remember When... (An anthology of local lives through spoken memory)"
The National Lottery Community Fund29/11/2018£10kMoorfield Hall Community Hub
The National Lottery Community Fund16/11/2016£177kLet's get Hawkesley Flying
The National Lottery Heritage Fund27/10/2014£7k"Hospital walking history"
The National Lottery Community Fund15/10/2014£9kStepping Out
The National Lottery Community Fund12/07/2006£312kRenew You
The National Lottery Community Fund01/03/2006£5kSutton Telephone Befriending
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/08/2005£275"Age Concern Birmingham Has Been Awarded A Grant To Enable Them To Carry Out A Nostalgia Day As Part Of Their Celebration And Commemoration O"
The National Lottery Community Fund12/08/2005£5kWW2 Nostalgia Day
The National Lottery Community Fund05/08/2005£3kParty to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of D-Day
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2004£5k'Stepping Down'
The National Lottery Heritage Fund05/11/2003£50k"Artscope"

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 THE CARERS CENTRE FOR BRIGHTON AND HOVE LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Age Connects West Midlands£2.7m—0unclear—no doubt
THE CARERS CENTRE FOR BRIGHTON AND HOVE LIMITED FY2025£668k—0unclear—no doubt
HEADWAY BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL FY2025£2.2m—0below—no doubt
JUBILEE CITIZENS UK FY2025£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
WEST LONDON CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING FY2025£987k——unclear—no doubt
LIFE 2009 FY2025£3.6m——unclear—no doubt

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