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Registered charity · Warwickshire

Life 2009

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.lifecharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Life 2009
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£3.7m
  • 2024£3.2m£3.9m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.6m£3.7m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: 1.1.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND OF UNSUPPORTED MOTHERS WITH ONE OR MORE INFANT CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING. 1.1.2 THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THAT OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND POOR PERSONS, INCLUDING THE TREATMENT OF PREGNANT WOMEN. 1.1.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PREGNANCY AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE.

Grants received

8 grants · £896,757 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 · £647,132 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £90,908
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £87,911
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £68,181
  • Community Foundation for Surrey · £2,625 (3 grants)

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.

6 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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 6

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 8Arts and leisure 1Education 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£3.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.1 in 2021

77 from 93 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.
6%
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
1128355
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/01/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 JAN 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 FEB 2018
Companies House
Company number 06786752 · Active
Contact on the register
01926312272 · kerrysmart@lifecharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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