Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 26 ?

AGE UK TEESSIDE 

Enabling older people to improve their lifestyle and remain independent by offering advice and information.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are 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
Established: 34 years
(36 years as a company)

www.ageuk.org.uk/teesside

front.office@ageukteesside.org.uk

01642805500

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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£917£834£84£56£623£5077.326200
31/03/22£549£585£-35£45£540£4589.424200
31/03/21£696£536£159£12£575£49411.121200
31/03/20£439£457£-18n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/19£429£476£-47n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/03/18£548£542£6£91£480£2696200
31/03/17£462£463£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£545£562£-17£81£486£2876.1170
31/03/15£474£450£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£361£425£-65£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£470£428£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£503£459£44£27£502£3027.9150
31/03/11£458£440£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£449£423£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£483£473£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£738£725£13£323£406£2173.6270
31/03/07£758£781£-23£365£392£1983330
31/03/06£342£440£-97£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£300£458£-157£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£300£417£-117£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 7.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
Quick Ratio: 27.4
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar And Cleveland, Stockton-on-tees,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • 26 employees
  • 200 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£96,600
Sport England£50,000
County Durham Community Foundation£39,700
National Lottery Community Fund£29,339
Ministry of Defence£15,267
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age UK Teesside
£1,117 21/10/2023
We aim to improve mental health through a gardening service for people age 50+ living in Loftus who are unable to care for their own gardens, due to financial circumstance or disability.
County Durham Community Foundation - Poverty Prevention Programme
£8,502 07/12/2022
To deliver a comprehensive Welfare Benefits advice service.
County Durham Community Foundation - No one should be cold at Christmas
£1,998 23/11/2022
To support the No one should be cold at Christmas project.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age UK Teesside
£1,873 22/10/2022
The project will offer psychological support and a buddy service to people aged over 50 in Skelton who have experienced a deterioration in their mental health and social connections due to Covid-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Rural Poverty Prevention- Redcar and Cleveland
£10,000 15/08/2022
The funding will be used to provide advice information and support to older members of the community in connection with welfare benefits in individuals' own homes. The project aims to improve the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Teesside
£96,600 15/06/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of an Advisor at a project providing home-based benefits and welfare advice sessions for older people in Hartlepool, North Yorkshire.
County Durham Community Foundation - Carers Respite Project
£5,000 10/09/2021
To support UK respite holidays.
National Lottery Community Fund - Information and Advice Service
£9,674 27/05/2021
The project will use the funding to continue delivering its Information and Advice service to help meet its demand and enable more vulnerable older people to access welfare benefits hardship ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 Innovative Solution
£50,000 04/11/2020
6
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Innovative Solutions funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 Innovative Solution. This project is a Multi-Skill Coaching project, with a focus ....more
County Durham Community Foundation - Covid19 Counselling and Buddy Service.
£20,000 11/09/2020
Towards a Covid19 Counselling and Buddy Service.
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£15,267 15/05/2020
to provide immediate support for vulnerable veterans with reduced social contact
County Durham Community Foundation - Age UK Teesside- COVID19 Emergency Response Volunteers
£4,200 23/04/2020
To provide emergency response volunteers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Help for Hardship
£9,665 23/03/2020
11
The funding will be used to run a two-day-per-week pilot project to help vulnerable older people in accessing hardship funds/grants and support services. The aim is to improve their wellbeing and ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Salary and on costs of an advisor providing home-based benefits and welfare advice sessions for older people in Hartlepool - Year 1
£32,400 01/04/2019
Salary and on costs of an advisor providing home-based benefits and welfare advice sessions for older people in Hartlepool - Year 1
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Teesside
£97,100 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' salary of an Advisor providing home-based benefits and welfare advice sessions for older people in Teesside
National Lottery Community Fund - The Full of Life Fair
£9,973 20/12/2017
12
Building on the success of last year's event, the organisation will host a fair with information and craft stalls, funfair, live music and a Samba dance procession. This will bring together people ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Full of Life Fair
£10,000 11/11/2016
12
The project will host an event to celebrate skills and talents, and share food, stories, dance and local multicultural community. This will bring together people from different generations and ethnic ....more
Northern Rock Foundation - Grant awarded to Age UK Teesside (Tees Valley)
£29,173 27/06/2014
To commission a feasibility study and assist the development of a paid for service offering dementia services in four unitary authority areas enabling self-sustainability.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-71
  • AMANDA SHORT Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Head Of Clinical Services
  • MARIE MACDONALD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Organisational Development Consultant
  • TANYA SCOTT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Care And Support Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/1990, number: 702714
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/08/1987, number: 02152353
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
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; all on time
Main office

The Dorothy Rose Suites (29-32)
The T A D Centre
Ormesby Road
MIDDLESBROUGH
TS3 7SF

Objectives

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE AGED IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW IS OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE WITHIN THE BENEFICIAL AREA.

Defined Area of Benefit:

REDCAR AND CLEVELAND HARTLEPOOL STOCKTON-ON-TEES MIDDLESBROUGH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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