Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 5
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

LIFEWORKS CHARITY LIMITED 

Lifeworks focuses on the needs of children with learning disabilities and their families, providing them with new opportunities that will lead to full, rewarding and active lives through the delivery of specialist further education, informal individualised learning programmes promoting independence and social skills, social care, short breaks and recreational projects.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 28 years

www.lifeworks-uk.org

joparsons@lifeworks-uk.org

01803840744

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£3,127£3,354£-227£0£2,179£2,1787.810010
31/03/22£3,113£3,032£81£0£2,406£2,3969.59815
31/03/21£2,811£2,783£28£0£2,325£2,3019.9966
31/03/20£2,737£2,595£143£0£2,298£2,26010.583117
31/03/19£2,506£2,440£66£0£2,155£2,10510.487100
31/03/18£2,546£2,209£337£0£2,089£2,03311850
31/03/17£2,333£2,028£306£0£1,752£1,72410.2960
31/03/16*£1,888£1,945£-57£4£1,447£1,4138.7640
31/03/15?£2,068£2,137£-70£6£1,504£1,4167.9790
31/12/13£1,713£1,606£106£6£1,574£1,50511.2750
31/12/12£1,623£1,516£108£5£1,467£1,39911.1480
31/12/11£1,485£1,312£173£10£1,360£1,27011.6670
31/12/10£1,266£1,217£49£15£1,187£7677.6660
31/12/09£1,252£1,085£167£11£1,137£7638.4610
31/12/08*£1,026£949£77£8£970£5787.3720
31/12/07£910£906£4£24£893£4916.5190
31/12/06*£762£699£63£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£732£623£109£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£755£698£56£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 7.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cornwall, Devon, Torbay,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 100 employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£41,523
National Lottery Community Fund£19,976
BBC Children in Need£13,207
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£1,250
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Lifeworks Charity Limited
£10,407 31/01/2022
This project will provide a youth led personal development course for children and young people with learning difficulties. This will help to reduce isolation, develop life skills and improve mental ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Lifeworks Charity Ltd - 06/04/21
£1,250 21/04/2021
Get Involved - Saturday Youth Group
National Lottery Community Fund - Get Involved
£9,976 12/01/2021
2
This organisation will develop their services to provide COVID-19 safe activities for people with disabilities including in person engagement activities short breaks and respite for carers and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£38,723 05/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Lifeworks Charity Limited (formerly Bidwell Brook Foundation)
£2,800 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - The grant will work with young people with learning disabilities providing an online safe space who are isolated at home due to Covid-19 and it will help to reduce their social isolation.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,800 28/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Kool Club
£10,000 15/08/2019
12
Kool Club
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
Working with young people with learning disabilities to develop a space that more rurally isolated peers can access and imprive health and wellbeing
DCMS - Building Connections Fund - Community Spaces
£10,000 20/12/2018
Working with young people with learning disabilities to develop a space that more rurally isolated peers can access and imprive health and wellbeing
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifeworks Summer Holiday Project
£10,000 20/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver holiday workshops and activities for young people with disabilities. The project aims to improve self-independence and self-confidence.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Lifeworks Charity Ltd
£10,000 11/07/2018
All Aboard
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Lifeworks Charity Limited (formerly Bidwell Brook Foundation)
£119,652 02/03/2018
36
The project will work with young people with learning disabilities providing mentoring support and access to professional qualifications. Taking part in the sessions will help them to find their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Life Skills Kitchen for Specialist FE College
£10,000 08/03/2012
12
This is a project by a charity in Devon. The group will use the funding to create a modular kitchen adapted for people with physical disabilities. This will allow the beneficiaries to develop ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Robins Respite & Life-Skills Centre
£10,000 13/01/2011
12
This is a project by a community group in Totnes, Devon. The group will use the funding to purchase a new vehicle for their centre, which provides residential and respite care for young people living ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 58-66
  • RICHARD CROMPTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chairman University Hospitals Plymouth Trust
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1996, number: 1054167
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/03/1996, number: 03177139
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR08: 10 days late, AR06: 25 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from KINGSKERSWELL SUMMER MOON TRUST on 21/10/2022
Main office

Lifeworks Charity
Lescaze Offices Room 33
Shinners Bridge
Dartington
TOTNES
Devon

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH LEARING DIFFICULTIES BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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