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Registered charity · Stevenage

The Living Room

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £854k (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Hertfordshire
Website
www.thelivingroom.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£854k£881k
  • 2024£884k£856k
  • 2023£920k£909k
Earlier years
  • 2022£830k£859k
  • 2021£859k£757k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 53% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE HEALTH OF ALL PERSONS WHO ARE IN DANGER OF BECOMING ADDICTED OR DEPENDANT UPON DRUGS OF ANY DESCRIPTION ALCOHOL, SOLVENTS OR OTHER ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SUCH ADDICTION OR DEPENDENCY.

Grants received

13 grants · £759,510 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

Most recent

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

1y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (7)

0
company-linked trustees

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

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

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£854k 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

19 from 23 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.
53%
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
1080634
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 01/03/2000AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 20/04/2008AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 26/06/2012
Contact on the register
01438355649 · enquiries@thelivingroom.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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