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AGE Concern (Herne BAY)

The Charity’s objects are to promote the relief of older people in any manner which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable within the county of Kent with particular reference to Herne Bay, Whitstable and surrounding villages and, at...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Education/training, Disability
Where
Kent
Website
www.ageuk.org.uk/hernebayandwhitstable (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
AGE Concern (Herne BAY)
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.9m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 34% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Charity’s objects are to promote the relief of older people in any manner which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable within the county of Kent with particular reference to Herne Bay, Whitstable and surrounding villages 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.

Grants received

9 grants · £162,620 total

360Giving 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

Most recent

  • Masonic Charitable Foundation £56,0682024-09-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9582021-02-19
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £9,6002020-06-25
  • Ministry of Defence £20,0002020-05-15
  • Department for Transport £2,2492020-04-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 8Other services 2Arts and leisure 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 25.2 in 2021

68 from 42 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
40%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1047605
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 AUGUST 1994, AS AMENDED 25 APRIL 1995 AND 13 OCTOBER 2006. as amended on 04 Dec 2019 as amended on 17 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 02960617 · Active
Contact on the register
01227749570 · linda.cowdry@ageukhbw.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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