Common questions about AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities a good charity? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 56% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities as a registered charity (charity number 1114859). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1114859&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's charity number? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's charity number is 1114859. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's charity rating? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities scores 79 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 56% of AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 44% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 45% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities. AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities receive? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities reported £2.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-18). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities based? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's registered contact address is in Worcester (WR1 3QQ). It tells the regulator it operates in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, with a focus on older people.
How much is AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's money come from? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities reported £2.8m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £1.3m (46%), trading and fundraising events £1.1m (39%), donations and legacies £308k (11%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3,928.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities? +
The register records AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's trustees paid? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities: Age Concern Worcester and District.
When was AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities registered as a charity? +
AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities was entered on the register on 26 June 2006. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05688674).
How does CharityCompare score AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and AgeUK Worcester,Malvern Hills & Hereford Localities's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.