LIFESHARE LIMITED

Registered charity 1042500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIFESHARE

Our Crisis Assessment Referral Diversity Service provides personal development intervention to people in Manchester age 16-25 at risk or facing homelessness or exploitation.Our weekend breakfast drop in and monthly wellbeing drop-in also provide clothes for adults in need.Our Christmas day shelter project provides free food, company and entertainment for adults in need over the holiday period.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AGED, THE HOMELESS, THE MENTALLY ILL OR HANDICAPPED IN MANCHESTER

Area of benefit: MANCHESTER

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £246,190 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted free reserves of £266,082. The trustees consider these reserves sufficient to cover approximately 10 months of unrestricted charitable expenditure, although this is below their stated policy target of 10 months of expenditure. The charity operates an auto-enrolment pension scheme with no defined-benefit deficit and is subject to independent examination rather than audit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02946401

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lifeshare Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HUSSAIN, Jahan, Dr — director, appointed 31/10/2023on trustee list
• CARROLL, Jane Elizabeth Sweeney — director, appointed 20/10/2023on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Matthew James — director, appointed 08/05/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Johnsonchair
• Dr Jahan Hussain
• Jane Carroll
• Lisa Watson
• Philip Garfield Hulme

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VISION25.

• VISION25 income £942k
• LIFE CHANCE TRUST income £123k
• LIFEBRIDGE ASEND income £1.1m
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• MANCHESTER CARE AND REPAIR income £1.5m
• THE STREETLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £768k

Side by side with its peers

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