Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

AGE CONCERN EAST SUSSEX 

Services to people in later life and influencing/representation to improve the quality of later life. Services include information and advice, community clubs, post-hospital discharge support, foot care and healthier lifestyles programmes.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 13 years

www.ageuk.org.uk/eastsussex

customerservices@ageukeastsussex.org.uk

01273476704

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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£2,772£2,681£91£1,215£1,428£1,114565219
31/03/22*£2,210£1,962£249£1,075£1,363£1,2627.758188
31/03/21£2,208£1,902£306£828£1,115£1,103777219
31/03/20£2,166£2,553£-387£1,241£809£8073.8104203
31/03/19£2,250£2,473£-223£1,203£1,195£1,1745.7106203
31/03/18£2,471£2,369£102£1,065£1,418£1,3126.6920
31/03/17£2,125£2,195£-69£1,058£1,316£1,2106.6540
31/03/16£1,981£1,978£3£1,143£1,386£1,3308.1600
31/03/15£1,781£1,727£55£932£1,383£1,3549.4410
31/03/14£1,653£1,467£185£655£1,328£1,30310.7390
31/03/13*£1,263£1,285£-22£394£1,142£1,13310.6360
31/03/12£1,116£1,368£-252£229£1,164£1,15910.2330

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 87.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 45.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 19%
Liabilities/Income: 12%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 4.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 65 employees
  • 219 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • East Sussex,

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£241,904
DCMS£100,000
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
LUND TRUST£50,000
Ministry of Defence£32,613
Sussex Community Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Isabel Blackman Centre - Community health & wellbeing centre in Hastings
£241,904 07/03/2023
The funding will be used to run a community hub which will provide advice and activities for the community. The project aims to develop new skills for employment bringing the community together and ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£50,000 07/12/2022
Refurbishment to create new wellbeing and leisure centre (Isabel Blackman Centre) for older people and people living with disabilities
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£25,000 01/12/2022
Towards advice and support for older people
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£25,000 15/12/2021
Towards advice and support for older people
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£32,613 12/11/2021
For existing charitable projects to help charities to sustain activities and services that people from Armed Forces communities use and value.
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Age Concern East Sussex - 10/08/21
£1,500 03/09/2021
Information and Advice
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£5,000 21/09/2020
Funding will support their Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) service for the next three months including; shopping and medicine collections, weekly befriending telephone calls and an ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£100,000 23/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sport England - HEALTHY LIVING CLUBS
£10,000 10/07/2020
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled HEALTHY LIVING CLUBS. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£5,000 21/04/2020
Age UK East Sussex are locally-focused and led by the needs of those in later life. Their main charitable services are: information and advice, day opportunities, preventative physical and mental ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£20,000 18/11/2019
23
Funding was provided towards the purchase of electric gardening vans and to cover project management costs.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£3,138 19/11/2018
We encourage healthy, social and physical activity among older and post-op people. Money will help with the cost of sessions.
National Lottery Community Fund - Information and Advice Assistant Manager
£10,000 31/08/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to recruit two new part time staff members. The project aims to reduce isolation amongst older people.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£7,372 16/03/2018
11
Age UK East Sussex are the main county-wide organisation supporting local older people. Funding was provided to support their Day Clubs in Peacehaven and Newhaven.
Masonic Trust - Benefits Advice and Community Resource Vehicle
£53,495 18/10/2017
Outreach advice and information service focusing on benefits advice for vulnerable isolated older people.
Dunhill Medical Trust - Contribution Towards the Benefits Advice and Community Resource Vehicle
£20,000 14/09/2017
5
Small grant towards the purchase of a new Citroen Relay Van which will be used as a Benefits Advice and Community Resources centre in order to reach older people currently unreachable
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£22,000 16/06/2017
Mobile Advice Centre Vehicle
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Age UK East Sussex
£25,000 15/01/2017
purchase of a vehicle for a charity which works with older people in East Sussex
National Lottery Community Fund - Targeted Benefits Advice and Resource Centre
£10,000 07/12/2016
12
This project will provide a van which will be modified and used as a mobile benefits advice and resource centre for the benefit of older people. This will enable the organisation to travel to various ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Age UK East Sussex Minibus Appeal 2014
£10,000 28/05/2014
12
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 39-84
  • CARYS WILLIAMS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Non Executive Director
  • LAURA MUCHA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Director
  • SUSAN HAYWARD Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired Hospital Matron
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/12/2010, number: 1139470
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/04/2010, number: 07216053
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
  • 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
12 returns made; AR22: 7 days late, AR13: 2 days late,
Main office

AGE CONCERN
54 CLIFFE HIGH STREET
LEWES
BN7 2AN

Objectives

THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED TO BE CHARITABLE IN AND AROUND THE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX, AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE WHERE ENGAGEMENT IN SUCH ACTIVITY IS CONSIDERED COMPLEMENTARY TO THE CHARITY'S PRIMARY PURPOSE. THE ARE ITS CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE 2011 ACT. FOR AS LONG AS THE CHARITY IS REGISTERED AS A CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, ITS PURPOSE MAY ONLY BE ALTERED WITH THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO SUCH CONSENT

Defined Area of Benefit:

EAST SUSSEX.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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