Age Concern Gillingham exists to promote the welfare of older residents throughout Gillingham and the surrounding areas. We deliver care, community services and support for older people across Medway, Gravesend, Faversham and Sittingbourne.
Our Local Mission
Our mission is to ensure all older people across Gravesend, Medway, Faversham and Sittingbourne. are supported to live life to the fullest.
Our principles are at the heart of everything we do, ensuring that all older people:
Have choice and control over all aspects of their lives.
Have a voice in policy and in design and commissioning of services.
Are respected, valued, involved and have a sense of purpose.
Are recognised for the contribution they make.
Recieve the care they need, when they need it.
Our Ambitions
Our strategy for the future was updated by our Board of Trustees in 2021, and we are committed to working towards ensuring that all older people and adults with learning disabilities:
Has easy access to opportunities and activities that enable them to lead a healthy, active and fulfilling life, with the companionship and support they wish for.
Is able to and supported to express their views and be listened to on matters that affect them and on which they are about.
Knows about and has easy access to high quality, impartial and reliable information, advice and advocacy when they need it in the way they need it.
Has access to locally available high quality, and personalised health and care services that are affordable to them or free of charge.
Our History
We are proud to say that we have been offering quality care and support services to our community for nearly 50 years.
Age Concern has had a presence in the Medway Towns since the 1970s. In 2010 Age Concern Gillingham and Strood merged to become Medway Age Concern, and in 2012 made the transition to become a local partner of Age UK, becoming known as Age UK Medway. In 2018 we expanded our service range even further by adding the Faversham team to our Homecare group, and again in 2021 by adding the Carer's Relief Service to the Group, effectively extending the support services we provide to adults with learning disabilities in Kent. In 2023, the charity group further expanded, taking transfer of Age UK North West Kent, merging with Age UK Faversham and Sittingbourne, and of course taking over the operations of the Clarendon Royal Community! In order to reflect the services we provide and the areas we provide them to accurately, we changed our name to Age Concern Gillingham.
During the last four decades the organisation has built a strong reputation locally for quality, providing a full range of care and support services for the growing older population of the Medway Towns. We are proud to have been providing care, companionship and support services across the Medway towns, Faversham and Kent, including one Day Centre and one specialist Dementia Centre, to our community for forty years. The range of services has continued to expand to meet the changing needs of the local older population and to meet the Government, Local Authority and Health agendas.
