BABY LIFELINE LIMITED

Registered charity 1006457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the charity is the provision of equipment in maternity and special care baby units, specific and focused development training for health and associated legal professionals involved in maternity care and other related research.

Objects

(1) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN NEWLY BORN OR RECENTLY BORN CHILDREN OR THEIR MOTHERS BY THE PROVISION OF PREMISES FACILITIES EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARY SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR PAEDIATRIC AND OBSTETRIC USE SOLELY TO ASSIST ANTENATAL OR PRENATAL CARE (2) TO PURSUE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSIDERED DESIRABLE FOR PURSUIT IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUCH OBJECTS AS AFORESAID

Area of benefit: INTERNATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves fell to £3,546, a significant reduction from the previous year's £153,607, driven by expenditure exceeding income. Despite this decrease, the trustees report that the charity remains in a strong overall financial position and do not regard the reduction in funds as a cause for concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Langard Lifford Hall Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Baby Lifeline (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY J JERVIS LLM LLBchair
• Charlie Pryor
• Dr PATRICK BOSE
• Geoffrey Suresh Silva
• Guy William Forster
• Jonathan Mark Shipton
• Katrina Jamieson
• Kristen Duffy
• MRS JUDY LEDGER

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cyprus · Guernsey · Iceland · Ireland · Jersey · Malawi · Scotland · Throughout England · Ukraine · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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