LIFE PATH TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1013242 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COVENTRY HOMES (MHC) LIMITED

The main activities of the Charity at present are :Care and SupportWe support people with learning disabilities in their own homes, day opportunities and provide personal care if needed. We also provide a respite service.Supported employmentWe provide supported employment to people with learning disabilities through our subsidiary Newpath Ventures Limited which runs a number of businesse

Objects

THE PROVISION OF CARE, ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT AND RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED BY SOCIETY DUE TO HEALTH CONDITIONS, AGE INFIRMITY OR LEARNING DISABILITIES/DIFFICULTIES, WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: THE COUNTIES (OR FORMER COUNTIES) OF THE WEST MIDLANDS, WARWICKSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE AND/OR SUCH OTHER COUNTIES

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £(143,315) for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £1,713,993. The trustees confirm that the sale of Walsgrave Road post-year-end significantly strengthened the reserves position, supporting the going concern basis. The charity remains significantly reliant on local authority funding but is pursuing diversification through social enterprise activities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).
• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 08/02/2024, 8 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02731429

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Life Path Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Diane Perry — CEO (source)
• Judy Ryan — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WOOLVIN, Marianne — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• CAVE, Kim Louise — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• EMSDEN, Philip — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
• RYAN, Judith Ann — director, appointed 08/11/2016on trustee list
• LAMB, James Edward — director, appointed 07/03/2014on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Keith Philip — director, appointed 07/12/2012on trustee list
• HALL, Robert Edward — director, appointed 15/06/2012not on trustee list
• RUSK, Philip James — director, appointed 15/06/2012on trustee list
• HIVES, Adam Andrew — secretary, appointed 27/02/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Life Path Trust Limited — Registered, 3 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 15/03/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Life Path Trust Limited - 2 Ellys Road: Good (03/01/2020) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Lamb
• Judith Ann Ryan
• KEITH PHILIP CHAPMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kim Cave
• Marianne Woolvin
• PHILLIP JAMES RUSK
• Philip Emsden
• ROBERT EDWARD HALL MBE · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WAYS AND MEANS TRUST LIMITED.

• THE WAYS AND MEANS TRUST LIMITED income £308k
• LIVINGWAY MINISTRIES income £158k
• LIFEWORKS CHARITY LIMITED income £2.5m
• LEARNING DISABILITY ENGLAND income £381k
• DRIVE income £25.2m
• The People Hive income £240k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.