Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

AGE CONCERN NORWICH 

To encourage, promote and organise direct services appropriate to the needs of individual or groups of elderly people in and around the City of Norwich by providing information, advice, community and care services irrespective of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, faith, neighbourhood or income to help them as far as possible to live in security, dignity, independence and well-being.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 21 years

www.ageuknorwich.org.uk

dan.skipper@ageuknorwich.org.uk

01603496329

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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*£951£1,109£-159£37£380£3373.63783
31/03/22£899£820£79£61£539£4436.530109
31/03/21£822£727£95£60£460£423726190
31/03/20£1,208£848£360£77£275£2653.831142
31/03/19£778£771£7£76£-85£-105-1.622165
31/03/18£755£751£3£71£-92£-108-1.7200
31/03/17£804£728£76£37£-49£-63-1210
31/03/16£547£672£-125£49£-126£-127-2.3190
31/03/15£678£807£-129£44£-1£-143-2.1210
31/03/14£676£680£-4£98£127£-19-0.3200
31/03/13£750£622£128£123£160£-8-0.2200
31/03/12£770£584£187£143£78£481180
31/03/11£583£553£29£101£-47£-75-1.6200
31/03/10£474£420£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£391£390£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£328£362£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£341£381£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£441£358£84£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£303£335£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£308£289£20£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 69%
Liabilities/Income: 90%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 3.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Norfolk,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • 37 employees
  • 83 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£151,000
The Earl of Northampton's Charity£99,908
Masonic Trust£52,361
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Coronation Care
£4,880 17/03/2023
The funding will be used to host a Coronation event for isolated older people. The project aims to bring people together to combat feelings of isolation and improve wellbeing.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£52,361 16/11/2022
To support the RITA project in Norwich
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 01/10/2021
Age Healthy Norwich
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Norwich
£151,000 12/08/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Information and Advice Centre' project for older people in Norwich.
The Earl of Northampton's Charity - Grant to Age Concern - Norwich
£99,908 04/12/2019
35
A project that offers isolated older people living in Norwich the opportunity to re-engage with the community by participating in activities and receiving professional advice
National Lottery Community Fund - Agewise+
£457,380 18/04/2019
36
The organisation will use funding to continue and expand the AgeWise project into a wider geographical area in Norwich. The project will also establish an anti-loneliness pathway for older people to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 07/03/2019
Information, Advice and Welfare Rights Service
Comic Relief - Sustainability Fund 2
£25,200 13/02/2019
3
We are applying for £25,200 from the Comic Relief Futures Lab Sustainability Fund to upgrade our digital infrastructure.The demography of older people is changing. More people are working longer, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - AgeWise Norwich
£360,087 18/05/2016
36
This is the expansion of a project for older people to plan, deliver and lead activities to support others at risk of loneliness. There will be an outreach advice service on things like benefits, ....more
Comic Relief - Next Step
£90,630 27/01/2016
36
Across the UK, 1 in 6 pensioners live in poverty. The impact of this is severe – individuals go without food, heat and adequate clothing just to make ends meet. The Norwich Older People’s Forum ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Age UK Norwich
£40,000 08/09/2015
36
over three years towards the salary and associated costs of a carers support worker to expand existing peer support and help carers to work with others to develop more dementia-friendly activities ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Norwich
£75,000 05/12/2012
36
towards three years' running costs of an advice and advocacy support service for older people in Norfolk
National Lottery Community Fund - Active and Involved
£209,444 13/06/2012
36
Age Concern Norwich will create a new project built on its existing work by integrating both its advice and befriending services into a single project. The project aims to focus on active living and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2002, number: 1094623
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/07/2002, number: 04489595
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 20 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

Age UK Norwich
Part First Floor
West Wing
69-75 Thorpe Road
Norwich

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT:3.1.1 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE, ADVANCING EDUCATION,3.1.2 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE(WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);3.1.3 PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;3.1.4 PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEUNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;3.1.5 ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND3.1.6 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE.3.1.7 NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE CHARITY'S PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER NORWICH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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