Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

AGE UK REDBRIDGE, BARKING AND HAVERING LTD 

Provision of a range of services to older people in and around London Boroughs of Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering to improve and maintain their quality of life.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static
Established: 23 years

www.ageuk.org.uk/redbridgebarkinghavering

admin@ageukrbh.org.uk

02082206000

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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£932£1,015£-83£11£669£4435.247180
31/03/22£1,021£990£31£8£752£5256.448174
31/03/21£1,072£840£232£2£721£5457.838174
31/03/20£886£814£72£25£489£4266.335232
31/03/19£715£767£-52£26£417£3675.732176
31/03/18£784£764£20£25£469£3896.1310
31/03/17£857£729£128£27£449£3165.2190
31/03/16£711£734£-23£0£322£2834.6190
31/03/15£638£655£-18£37£345£3065.6140
31/03/14£555£633£-77£39£362£3135.9140
31/03/13£677£661£15£39£439£3696.7160
31/03/12£764£699£65£32£424£4247.3240
31/03/11£739£735£4£59£359£3595.9240
31/03/10£658£820£-162£62£355£3555.2240
31/03/09£727£695£32£52£517£5178.9240
31/03/08£792£649£143£52£486£4869240
31/03/07£590£617£-26£56£343£3436.7230
31/03/06£661£620£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£593£576£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£206£222£-16£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 66%
Reserves/Spending: 5.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 3.3
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • 47 employees
  • 180 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
National Lottery Community Fund£425,575
Henry Smith Charity£310,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£100,000
City Bridge Trust£84,000
The London Community Foundation£29,845
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Redbridge Barking and Havering
£175,600 06/11/2023
towards three years‘ running costs of a project providing an information and advice service for older people from the London Boroughs of Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham and Havering.
National Lottery Community Fund - Di's Diamonds Activities Project
£425,575 07/03/2023
The funding will be used to support older people through social cultural and leisure activities and wellbeing provisions. The project aims to improve community cohesion through activities and develop ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
£84,000 08/12/2021
24
£84,000 (£42,000 x 2) over two further and final years to fund 50% of 2 FTE Care Navigator posts for Barking & Dagenham and Redbridge and associated project costs.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age UK Redbridge Barking & Havering
£2,953 24/10/2020
We would like to fund a Communications officer who will raise awareness and manage various activities for older people.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
£24,865 25/06/2020
The funding is for developing digital channels to reduce loneliness for local older people, increasing our capacity/speed to respond to heightened demand (currently a 30% increase) :- a. A Social ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£3,068 18/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, with ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
£4,980 09/04/2020
The funding (£4,980) will help us provide food for 166 older people; the older people we are supporting now and those who approach us in food poverty in the future. We will give older people who may ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Age UK Redbridge Barking and Havering
£134,400 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' salary of a Full-time Senior Advice Worker at a project providing information and advice for older people in Redbridge, Barking and Havering
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
£100,000 26/06/2019
36
Three years Project Funding for a Care Navigator (0.6FTE) to support 150 older people experiencing loneliness and isolation.
London Catalyst - Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering - 1
£4,000 07/05/2019
Befriending - P/T Project Coordinator
National Lottery Community Fund - Befriending - Project Coordinator
£10,000 27/03/2019
12
The project will expand its befriending services that support the needs of older people. The aim is to reduce social isolation and improve levels of wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Di?s Diamonds and Diamond Geezers
£99,843 28/02/2019
36
The project aims to establish a self-sustaining social networks for older people to reduce loneliness and isolation. The groups will be peer led activity groups and will include trips to local places ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 17/09/2018
Improving the wellbeing of older people with long-term health conditions in Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham through our Care Navigation Programme
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Age UK Redbridge, Barking and Havering
£126,460 02/05/2018
36
£126,460 over three years (£42,380, £41,850, £42,230) towards two Care Navigator posts for Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham and associated project costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-80
  • ANGELA PATEL Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Non-Executive Director Hornbeam Trust
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/09/2001, number: 1088435
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/07/2001, number: 04246504
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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

AgeUK Redbridge Barking& Havering
4th Floor
103 Cranbrook Road
ILFORD
Essex
IG1 4PU

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) IS ESTABLISHED AND TO WHICH IT IS SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AND/OR THE PUBLIC IN AND AROUND OUTER EAST LONDON (NAMELY REDBRIDGE, HAVERING, BARKING & DAGENHAM AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS) - PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE; - PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL); - ADVANCING EDUCATION; - PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN OLDER AND DISABLED PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL); - PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; - ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND - SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THE PUBLIC AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE

Defined Area of Benefit:

OUTER EAST LONDON (NAMELY REDBRIDGE, HAVERING, BARKING & DAGENHAM AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS)

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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