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Registered charity · Gloucestershire

We Change Lives (WCL)

We Change Lives (WCL) is a registered charity (number 1003023) based in Gloucestershire, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Richard Gore since 2015. Latest income £12m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as W C L (Charity Commission)

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Bolton, Wigan, Lancashire, Halton and more
Website
www.wcliving.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
WE Change Lives (WCL)
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£12m
  • 2024£9.5m£9.4m
  • 2023£5.9m£6.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.7m£5.5m
  • 2021£6.0m£6.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 90%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF OLDER PEOPLE FROM THE DISABILITIES RESULTING FROM OLD AGE, INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, AND OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, PHYSICAL DISABILITIES OR MENTAL PROBLEMS BY THE PROVISION OF PERMANENT HOMES AND SERVICES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED SERVICE USERS). PROVIDED THAT IN FURTHERING THIS OBJECT THE CHARITY WILL SEEK TO ENABLE SERVICE USERS TO LEAD AN INDEPENDENT AND FULFILLING LIFESTYLE BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS AND TO ENJOY THE SAME RANGE OF OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO ALL VALUED MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Grants received

1 grant · £100,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department of Health · £100,000

Most recent

  • Department of Health £100,0002017-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

8y median 9.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 4Disability 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 9Finance 3Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

272 from 262 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1003023
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 MARCH 1991 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19 NOVEMBER 1996 as amended on 24 Jan 2022 as amended on 30 May 2022 as amended on 06 Oct 2022 as amended on 28 Nov 2022 as amended on 19 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 02595601 · Active
Contact on the register
01925246870 · hello@wcliving.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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