The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Improving Lives Plymouth

Registered charity 1066776 Registered since 1997

Operates: Plymouth City, Devon

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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

5.3y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

5
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 8Business services 1Other services 1

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£2.4m 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.

7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 in 2021

72 from 57 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.
64%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttps://www.improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk/
Emaililp@improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk
Phone01752201766
AddressERNEST ENGLISH HOUSE, BUCKWELL STREET, PLYMOUTH, PL1 2DA

Finances

£2,404,613 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,626,900£1,608,591
2022£1,734,746£1,596,124
2023£2,301,159£2,133,231
2024£2,393,402£2,366,833
2025£2,404,613£2,395,427

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyArmed Forces/emergency Service EfficiencyOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

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.

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

Trustees (7)

7trustees
64median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Improving Lives Plymouth · 02610208 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 13/05/1991

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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