CATCHINGLIVES

Registered charity 1014868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANTERBURY OPEN CENTRE, CANTERBURY OPEN CHRISTMAS, THE SCRINE FOUNDATION

The charity's mission is to provide a high quality, professionally-run service, utilising the skills of staff and volunteers to progress people out of the trap of destitution swiftly, comprehensively and lastingly; to promote the relief of poverty, sickness and distress among persons in need, including those not catered for by existing statutory or voluntary services within the United Kingdom.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGPERSONS IN NEED. THIS IS TO INCLUDE THOSE NOT CATERED FOR BYEXISTING STATUTORY OR VOLUNTARY SERVICES WITHIN THE UNITEDKINGDOM'.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £125,921 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £420,140. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are held in an Operational Fund with a policy target of 3-6 months' running costs, and the charity acknowledges a degree of risk to future reserve levels due to its income sources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Spurling Cannon Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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 — Catching Lives (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~11.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Teresa Pearcechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward John Coates-Withers
• Ella O'Sullivan
• Frances Anne Ellis
• Gulen Petty
• James Miller
• Jeremy Gill Hughes
• Laura Johnson
• Laura Ross
• Megan Joy Ashdown
• Natalie Archer
• Niloufar Hajilou
• Philip Astell
• Vicky Thorburn

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHARING LIFE TRUST.

• SHARING LIFE TRUST income £108k
• RECYCLING LIVES CHARITY income £2.6m
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £231k
• SUPPORTING LIVES income £103k
• ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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