Registered charity · Somerset
AGE UK Somerset
- 7 trustees
- Income £948k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Somerset, North Somerset
- Website
- www.ageuksomerset.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- AGE UK Somerset
- Registered
- 1992
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£948k£1.0m
- 2024£1.0m£1.1m
- 2023£940k£928k
Earlier years
- 2022£696k£706k
- 2021£659k£588k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 18%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
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;3.1.2 ADVANCING EDUCATION;3.1.3 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);3.1.4 PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;3.1.5 PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;3.1.6 ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND3.1.7 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.
Grants received
28 grants · £493,374 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £241,980 (4 grants)
- Somerset Community Foundation · £115,800 (11 grants)
- Quartet Community Foundation · £88,344 (12 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £47,250
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
7 trustees on the board
- Stephen Holt Chair since 2020
- David Frank Johnson since 2014
- Gillian Blackshaw since 2022
- Jonathan Samways since 2022
- Karen Lesley Wight since 2026
- Saeed Shafie-Pour since 2022
- Simon Jackson since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Stephen Holt Chair since 2020
- David Frank Johnson since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Stephen Holt Chair since 2020
- Gillian Blackshaw since 2022
- Jonathan Samways since 2022
- Karen Lesley Wight since 2026
- Saeed Shafie-Pour since 2022
- Simon Jackson since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- David Frank Johnson since 2014
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1015900
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/05/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/08/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/08/2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/08/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 OCT 2020AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 OCT 2020 as amended on 09 Dec 2021 as amended on 27 Sep 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 02717676 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01823345610 · info@ageuksomerset.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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