Registered charity · Plymouth
Improving Lives Plymouth
Improving Lives Plymouth is a registered charity (number 1066776) based in Plymouth, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Jeremy Prichard since 2016. Latest income £2.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.
2.1 - To assist, comfort and guide any person who may be in distress by the reason of poverty, ill health, loneliness or any other cause; 2.2 - To promote and protect the health and wellbeing and to relieve need, suffering and distress among persons...
- 7 trustees
- Income £2.4m (2025)
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Who leads it
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, Disability and 3 more
- Where
- Plymouth City, Devon
- Website
- www.improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Improving Lives Plymouth
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.4m£2.4m
- 2024£2.4m£2.4m
- 2023£2.3m£2.1m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.7m£1.6m
- 2021£1.6m£1.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 59% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
2.1 - To assist, comfort and guide any person who may be in distress by the reason of poverty, ill health, loneliness or any other cause; 2.2 - To promote and protect the health and wellbeing and to relieve need, suffering and distress among persons within Plymouth and the surrounding area, who are currently or who have previously served in the armed forces and their dependents, through the provision of services, advice and facilities to assist in their rehabilitation and integration into the community. 2.3 - To promote, encourage and foster any objects which may be for the common good of the community within Plymouth and the surrounding area; and2.4 - To encourage, initiate and co-operate in the work of other voluntary or statutory bodies for the advancement of education, the furtherance of health, the relief of poverty, distress or sickness or for any other work of a charitable nature or which may hereafter be deemed by law to be charitable.
Grants received
32 grants · £810,598 total360Giving 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
- Ministry of Defence · £332,395 (8 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £290,302 (8 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £35,000 (2 grants)
- Veterans Foundation · £30,000
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £30,000
Most recent
- Ministry of Defence
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Jeremy Prichard Chair since 2016
- Abraham Kallis since 2026
- Elaine Latham since 2018
- Emily Steed since 2021
- Kate Meredith since 2023
- Stephen Waite since 2022
- Susan Mary Keaty since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Jeremy Prichard Chair since 2016
- Elaine Latham since 2018
- Susan Mary Keaty since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Jeremy Prichard Chair since 2016
- Abraham Kallis since 2026
- Elaine Latham since 2018
- Emily Steed since 2021
- Kate Meredith since 2023
- Stephen Waite since 2022
- Susan Mary Keaty since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1066776
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 MAY 1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 NOV 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 OCT 2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 02 FEB 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29 APR 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 28 MAR 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06 FEB 2018 as amended on 18 Jun 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 02610208 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01752201766 · ilp@improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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