About AgeTrust
A small charity with a national track record
We help larger charities, the NHS, local councils and community groups work together, so older people get better health and more company.
- Registered charity no. 1124019
- Programmes evaluated by Deloitte
- Thanked by the Secretary of State for Health
- Partners: NHS, NAPC and Health Education England
Our history
From research grants to front-line support
The milestones that shaped what AgeTrust does today.
Where we started
Funding research into age-related conditions
AgeTrust, the Age Related Diseases & Health Trust, began by giving small but timely grants to research into the causes of age-related conditions and their treatment. Contributions to the University of Glasgow, the Cochrane Collaboration and Peninsula Medical School were credited with important steps forward.
A change of direction
From funding research to delivering support
That research taught us something that has shaped everything since: many long-term conditions are preventable, and crises can be avoided when people get person-centred support early. We moved from funding research to making that support happen.
National dementia work
Dementia Action Alliance
We led and co-funded the Dementia Action Alliance's action group on post-diagnostic support, and delivered commissioned reports for the Alliance and the Department of Health.
Primary care
Information Prescriptions for GPs
We developed Information Prescriptions for GPs with the Guideposts Trust, giving patients clear, personalised information at the point of diagnosis. An independent evaluation by Deloitte rated the programme very highly.
NHS training
Primary Care Navigator training
We co-developed Primary Care Navigator training for NHS front-line staff with the National Association of Primary Care, Health Education England and the Department of Health.
2015
Recognised by the Secretary of State for Health
The Secretary of State for Health wrote to thank AgeTrust for its “leadership, support and commitment”, describing the work as a step change in responding to dementia.
Today
Tackling isolation and loneliness
Working at the join between medical and social care, one problem kept surfacing: isolation and loneliness. They make people ill, they fill A&E, and they are fixable. Today our energy goes into befriending, Men in Sheds in Stafford, and helping people claim the support they are entitled to through Win Your PIP.
What we believe
Purpose and promise
- Our purpose
- Better health and less loneliness in later life, achieved by bringing people together.
- Our promise
- Practical help, a friendly face and a clear next step, every time someone reaches out.
Our values
What guides our work
Warmth
We lead with kindness. People come before paperwork.
Clarity
Plain English and no jargon, in everything we write and say.
Dignity
People, not patients or service users. We never talk down to anyone.
Partnership
We connect rather than compete, and share credit with our partners.
Our people
Trustees and leadership
A small, hands-on board with deep roots in health, community work and disability rights.
Jayde Lewis
Chair
Jayde holds a BA (Hons) in Business Management and founded Home to Home Calls. She is driven by one aim: effective support for older people, their families and carers across the country, whatever their ability to pay.
jayde@agetrust.orgPaul Spinger
Consulting Chief Executive
Paul is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for Public Health. He has driven AgeTrust's projects and achievements to date, from national dementia policy to front-line NHS training.
paul@agetrust.comAndrea Tweed
Trustee
Andrea is a keen volunteer for local community initiatives, with a particular interest in how older people are treated and supported in later life.
Daniel Williams
Trustee
Daniel is passionate about disability rights and making mainstream services accessible to everyone, so that disabled people can live as independently as possible. He wants to help close the employment gap between disabled people and the wider population.
Governance
How AgeTrust is run
- Registered name
- Age Related Diseases & Health Trust
- Charity number
- 1124019 (England and Wales)
- Registered office
- Radfield House, Stafford, Staffordshire ST17 4AP
- Social enterprise
- Win Your PIP, a service of AgeTrust
Our accounts and annual returns are filed with the Charity Commission. For partnership, commissioning or press enquiries, please contact us.
Volunteer
Give an hour a week. Change someone's week.
Our befrienders, shed members and local helpers make our work possible. No experience is needed. We pay expenses and provide full training and support.
Donate
Fund a visit, a phone call or a shed place for someone who lives alone.
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