Centre for Ageing Better

Registered charity 1160741 · since 2015ageing-better.org.uk·England, Wales·Updated 30 October 2026

At a glance

£24,063

Annual giving, year to 31 March 2026

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

The Centre's giving is small: it paid £24,063 in its latest year, and its micro-grants averaged £565 across 61 voluntary organisations, so a modest request fits.
Your work should fall within its themes of fair access to work, age-friendly homes and communities, and tackling ageism and discrimination in later life.
For the Age Without Limits Day micro-grants, your organisation must be located in an area that is a member of the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities, so check that first.
Before applying, attend the online information session the Centre encourages, read the Information Document and Application Form, and send any questions to its grants email address.
No publicly published application process is given beyond this, so ask the Centre before assuming other routes exist.

Overview

Centre for Ageing Better is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1160741).

The Centre for Ageing Better aims to help people have a better later life by applying evidence of what works and driving change in line with that evidence. Its activity falls into three areas: Age-friendly Work, Age-friendly Homes, and Age-friendly Communities and tackling ageism. In its latest year it paid £24,063 and awarded £35,468, and its micro-grants went to 61 voluntary organisations, with an average value of £565.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Centre for Ageing Better works to improve how people experience ageing, focusing on fair access to decent work for people in their 50s and 60s, age-friendly homes and communities, and tackling ageism and discrimination in later life. It uses evidence and works with national and local government, industries, businesses and community organisations. Its work centres older people's voices. The report identifies microgrants to voluntary organisations, while the Centre's described community micro-grant opportunity supports community groups and local voluntary organisations to take action on Age Without Limits Day.

Themes

Fair access to work
Age-friendly homes
Age-friendly communities
Ageism and discrimination

What they don't fund

Age Without Limits Day: Micro-grants for community groups only: Your organisation is located in an area that is a member of the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities

How to apply

For the Age Without Limits Day micro-grants, prospective applicants are encouraged to attend an online information session and to read the Information Document and view the Application Form beforehand; questions can be sent to the grants email address.

Who can apply:

Age Without Limits Day micro-grants: Your organisation must be located in an area that is a member of the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities.

What to send:

Age Without Limits Day micro-grants: Read the Information Document and view the Application Form before attending the information sessions.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

For the micro-grant call, the Centre encouraged prospective applicants to attend an online information session.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Centre for Ageing Better.

Centre for Ageing BetterRollingGave £35,468 Hallmark FoundationRollingGave £120k McCarthy Stone FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £334k Age UKNo public processGave £28.6M The Mercers Charitable FoundationNo public processGave £3.7M Florence Cohen Charitable TrustRollingGave £144k The Rix-thompson-rothenberg FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £144k The Edward Gostling FoundationInvitation onlyGave £16.7M Barchester Charitable FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £262k The Bernard Sunley FoundationRollingGave £4.9M

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2022	£1,237,510	£6,183,243	£240,565	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£1,100,763	£5,370,462	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£838,491	£6,690,047	£174,972	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£864,241	£6,358,937	£32,240	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025
year to 31 March 2026	£1,093,418	£6,122,981	£24,063	Accounts for year to 31 March 2026

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2022

£241k grants

YE 2024

£175k grants

YE 2025

£32,240 grants

YE 2026

£24,063 paid

Grants paid stayed within income across the 4 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 March 2022; year to 31 March 2024; year to 31 March 2025: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
Grants paid, year to 31 March 2026: grants paid out in the year.

— No grants figure for that year.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.