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Registered charity · Devon

Shared Lives South West

1. TO RELIEVE DISABILITY ESPECIALLY (BUT NOT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING ACCOMMODATION, CARE AND SUPPORT TO OR FOR PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL, SENSORY, LEARNING OR OTHER DISABLEMENT OR OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND...

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £8.6m (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
Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sharedlivessw.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shared Lives South West
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.6m£8.5m
  • 2024£7.7m£7.7m
  • 2023£6.9m£7.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.3m£6.4m
  • 2021£7.0m£7.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 96%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO RELIEVE DISABILITY ESPECIALLY (BUT NOT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING ACCOMMODATION, CARE AND SUPPORT TO OR FOR PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL, SENSORY, LEARNING OR OTHER DISABLEMENT OR OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND ASSIST THEIR INTEGRATION INTO THE COMMUNITY AND BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING APPROPRIATE SUPPORT FOR THEIR CARERS.2. For the public benefit, to provide relief to those in need by reason of age, ill-health, financial hardship or other disadvantage (and in particular, but without limitation, elderly people, victims of domestic violence or abuse, people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, people in need of after-care and assistance following discharge from hospital or a care facility, or such people who are seeking asylum or who have been granted refugee status) by providing or facilitating accommodation, and/or care and support services to or for such persons designed to meet their needs and by providing or facilitating appropriate support for their carers.

Grants received

1 grant · £9,990 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 Community Fund · £9,990

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9902010-09-02
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.

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
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 11Disability 11

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 11Construction 3Finance 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£8.6m 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

41 from 40 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
1104699
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/01/2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 SEP 2016 as amended on 18 Jun 2020
Companies House
Company number 05025213 · Active
Contact on the register
01626360170 · enquiries@sharedlivessw.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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