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Registered charity · Manchester

Big Life Services

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Manchester City, Rochdale, Salford City
Website
www.thebiglifegroup.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BIG Life Services Limited
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£12m
  • 2024£11m£10m
  • 2023£8.0m£7.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.6m£7.5m
  • 2021£6.8m£6.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 93% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE INITIATIVES TO ADVANCE WELL BEING BY:(1) PROMOTING WELL BEING AND HEALTHY LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND SELF HELP INITIATIVES(2) DEVELOP SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY(3) PROVIDE INFORMATION ON SERVICES AVAILABLE (BOTH STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY) TO LOCAL PEOPLE(4) PROVIDE AN EASY ACCESS POINT TO SERVICES FOR LOCAL PEOPLE(5) PROVIDE TRAINING, EDUCATION AND SKILL SHARING(6) PROVIDE COMMUNITY RESOURCES (7) DEVELOP AND COORDINATE VOLUNTARY INITIATIVES IN THE COMMUNITY(8) DEVELOP A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH WITH OTHER AGENCIES TO INCREASE THE RANGE OF OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO COMMUNITIES(9) SET UP AND ESTABLISH LIAISON STRUCTURES BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY, VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY SERVICES

Grants received

8 grants · £122,987 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £54,907
  • Macc · £40,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £25,000 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £3,080

Most recent

  • Sport England £3,0802024-07-24
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £54,9072024-01-24
  • Macc £27,1502023-10-20
  • Macc £11,8502023-10-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002023-01-06
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.

6 trustees on the board

3.8y median 1y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (5)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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 21Other services 2Professional services 2

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£11.7m latest income
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.

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

170 from 122 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.
93%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1062333
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03 FEB 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09 AUG 2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16 NOV 2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08 SEP 2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 OCT 2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 JUL 2021 as amended on 01 Apr 2025
Companies House
Company number 03311884 · Active
Contact on the register
0161 871 2605 · finance@thebiglifegroup.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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