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Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 3
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Gov Income
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

LIFETIMES CHARITY

Lifetimes empowers the community and voluntary sector. We facilitate networking events, providing bespoke training, support and community information with our unique directories and reports. We are specialists in delivering services to hard to reach sectors of the community. We are experts in the fields of volunteering brokerage and mental health training..
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received Government grants and contracts

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£38£31£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£2,221£306£1,914£0£5,105£5,105199.930
31/03/21£934£783£151£7£3,191£1,55323.8240
31/03/20£1,218£1,011£207£7£3,082£1,43917.1250
31/03/19£396£268£127n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£1,017£942£75£7£2,516£1,04013.2250
31/03/17£280£158£122n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£302£137£165n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£476£240£236n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£1,144£897£248£629£1,698£5427.2240
31/03/13£860£859£1£29£1,149£2803.9180
31/03/12£976£975£1£591£1,146£2923.670
31/03/11£875£911£-36£20£1,147£2573.490
31/03/10£578£705£-126£147£1,181£3415.890
31/03/09£528£503£24£18£1,307£43810.4110
31/03/08£538£468£71£19£1,254£40810.5100
31/03/07£617£450£167£16£1,157£3469.2110
31/03/06£547£407£140n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£495£421£73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£426£364£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 25 years

www.life-times.org.uk

info@life-times.org.uk

0208 8752845

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 68-87
  • INDIRA O'REILLY Appointed: 2020
  • MARIE LANE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Charity Worker
  • NATHALIE GIBSON-WILSON (Chair) Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Nursing
  • VALERIE CLARK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Solicitor
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/01/2000, number: 1078984
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

LIFETIMES CHARITY
18 concanon road
LONDON
sw2 5ta

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFITOF THE COMMUNITY IN LONDON, THE HOME COUNTIES ANDTHE SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREAOF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OFEDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OFPOVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. B) TO PROMOTE ANDORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THEABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER INCOUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THEAREA OF BENEFIT. THE HOME COUNTIES SHALL MEANBUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, ESSEX, BERKSHIRE,MIDDLESEX, SURREY, KENT AND SUSSEX.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, CENTRAL LONDON, AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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