AGE UK WILTSHIRE

Registered charity 800912 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN WILTSHIRE

Age UK Wiltshire promotes the well-being of all older people in Wiltshire, Swindon & Southampton through offering information and advice, befriending, Carers support, Welfare Checks with Meals Service, activity groups and supporting community day services. We offer talks on a range of subjects to community groups and we research and campaign on issues that affect older people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE IN AND AROUND THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £254,087 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by unrestricted reserves of £415,010. The trustees confirm that the charity holds funds in line with its reserves policy, which targets 3 to 6 months of expenditure, although they note that the future for the commissioning of statutory services remains unclear.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 6 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 02121174
• Trading subsidiary: AGE UK WILTSHIRE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07765661

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Postcode Community Trust — “We're delighted to share that Age UK Wiltshire has been awarded a £60,000 grant from the Postcode Community Trust, funded by players of Peop…” (source page)

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.

• TYLER, Julia — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Kennedy Elyse — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• LAFFERTY, Ian Carlyle — director, appointed 09/03/2026on trustee list
• WELLS, Jacqueline — director, appointed 01/04/2023not on trustee list
• PURCHASE, Richard — director, appointed 26/05/2022on trustee list
• JOHNSTON, Keith Andrew — director, appointed 15/11/2021on trustee list
• RUSTON, Stewart — director, appointed 11/11/2020on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Christopher Anthony — secretary, appointed 13/07/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Purchasechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Carlyle Lafferty · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jackie Wells
• Julia Tyler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Andrew Johnston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kennedy Taylor
• Stewart Andrew Ruston

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

Operates in: Southampton City · Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 UK Lincolnshire.

• Age UK Lincolnshire income £5.1m
• AGE UK income £131.8m
• AGE UK BERKSHIRE income £1.3m
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m
• AGE UK LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK income £2.6m
• Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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