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Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 2
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER LIMITED 

THE CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER AIMS TO HELP PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER LATER LIFE BY APPLYING EVIDENCE OF WHAT WORKS & DRIVING CHANGE IN LINE WITH THIS EVIDENCE. WE HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING FROM THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT PEOPLE WANT FOR A BETTER LATER LIFE & A CLEAR ANALYTIC OF WHERE CHANGE IS NEEDED TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE IN KEY DOMAINS OF BETTER HEALTH, BETTER FINANCES, BETTER RELATIONSHIPS & BETTER PLACES.
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Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £29,941,010 available, equivalent to 67 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,101£5,370£-4,270£0£30,065£29,94166.9540
31/03/22£1,238£6,183£-4,946£0£37,673£37,56372.9600
31/03/21£897£6,876£-5,979£0£39,374£39,29468.6650
31/03/20£1,039£5,224£-4,185£0£40,046£39,98691.9510
31/03/19£1,002£3,956£-2,954£0£45,784£0n/a360
31/03/18£901£3,455£-2,554£0£47,588£0n/a280
31/03/17£1,292£2,642£-1,350£0£50,140£50,138227.8180
31/03/16£1,746£2,049£-303£0£48,801£0n/a40
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 66.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8
Asset Split ?
Established: 9 years

www.ageing-better.org.uk

info@ageing-better.org.uk

02038290113

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Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • 54 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Centre for Ageing Better Limited
£10,000 23/10/2019
Funding market research to understand employers' appetite for group-based psychological and emotional support for employees in mid-life, and potential providers who could deliver this support.
DCMS - Age-Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering Fund
£250,000 06/11/2018
To stimulate and test innovative models of age-friendly, flexible volunteering and social action opportunities that are responsive to life events and fit around peoples life circumstances.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Centre for Ageing Better Limited
£20,000 01/08/2018
Funding for a fixed term Partnerships and Influencing Manager at the Centre for Ageing Better (CfAB).
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Centre for Ageing Better Limited
£16,500 10/05/2018
Co-funded research to improve understanding of the current market of support available through employers to people from mid-life to pre-retirement. This will enable us to better understand what ....more
DCMS - 50+ Volunteering: Evidence Review
£5,000 01/04/2018
To convene an analysis review on how to increase social action by people aged 50 and over. This will cover not just increasing impactful activity overall, but also increasing participation among ....more
DCMS - 50+ Volunteering: Evidence Review
£25,000 29/09/2017
To convene an analysis review on how to increase social action by people aged 50 and over. This will cover not just increasing impactful activity overall, but also increasing participation among ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Centre for Ageing Better Limited
£65,000 27/06/2017
Evaluation of the Phase Two TiLL project cohort. The UK Branch has committed to embedding evaluation throughout the TiLL programme as part of its 2015-19 strategy and partnership with CfAB.
National Lottery Community Fund - Centre for Ageing Better – Endowment
£49,638,505 12/12/2014
119
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Centre for Ageing Better – Development Grant
£361,495 31/01/2014
8
To promote the benefits of an ageing society by capitalising on the skills and knowledge that older people have to offer and to influence existing policy and practice to improve societyÂ’s ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-84
  • FIONA JOHNSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Freelance Communications Consultant
  • NUZHAT ALI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • CATHY GARNER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Executive Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/03/2015, number: 1160741
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/01/2014, number: 08838490
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Centre for Ageing Better
15 Alfred Place
LONDON
WC1E 7EB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE RELIEF OF CURRENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF OLDER PEOPLE BY:1. PROMOTING THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE, INCLUDING WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY CONDUCTING AND PROMOTING RESEARCH, AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND RESEARCH, ON HEALTH CARE ISSUES RELATED TO AGEING AND ON THE BENEFITS OF THE ADOPTION OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLES;2. THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE INCLUDING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR ADEQUATE FINANCIAL PLANNING IN PREPARATION FOR CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND/OR INDEPENDENT EARNING CAPACITY;3. PROMOTING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF OLDER PEOPLE, AND PREVENTING THEM FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE INCLUDING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY CONDUCTING AND PROMOTING RESEARCH, AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND RESEARCH, INTO THE ECONOMIC, SOCIOCULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS WHICH LEAD TO THE ISOLATION AND MARGINALISATION OF OLDER PEOPLE INCLUDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION RELATING TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT, CULTURAL AND LEISURE SERVICES, PUBLIC AMENITIES AND AGE DISCRIMINATION; AND4. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.IN EACH CASE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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