Age charities inch towards merger - yet again

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 26 March 2008

Age Concern England and Help the Aged have come a step closer to making a decision over a proposed merger after ACE trustees approved a paper on the topic.

Help the Aged's board is yet to consider the document, which remains confidential at this stage and is thought to have been compiled by the so-called Highgrove Working Party, which began work in 2007 to explore merger options. In a joint statement, the charities' directors, Gordon Lishman of ACE and...

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