LIFE CYCLE

Registered charity 1077575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CYCLE WEST, LIFE CYCLE UK

Life Cycle helps people take up cycling as a way of bringing about social and environmental change. We run a range of practical projects and services that overcome the barriers to cycling. We also pioneer new ways of raising awareness of the many benefits cycling brings: to individuals, to communities and to the planet.

Objects

1) to promote the conservation of the natural environment for the benefit of the public by promoting cycling as a means of transport;2) to educate the public on the benefits of cycling as a non-polluting means of transport 3) to advance the education and training of the public in road safety and the safe use and maintenance of bicycles; 4) to preserve and protect the health of the public by encouraging and facilitating safe cycling; and 5) to provide for the public benefit, the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, who otherwise have limited access to the benefits of cycling, by providing them with opportunities or the motivation to own or use a bicycle or to cycle more regularly.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted a surplus of £58k in 2025-26, reversing a three-year trend of losses, and holds unrestricted general reserves of £157k. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate working capital and sufficient reserves to continue operations for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson 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
• 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)

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

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

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 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 (93% 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: 4.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Cooper
• Geoffrey Roach
• Guy Buckland
• Harold Binley
• Keith Norman
• Kiron Chatterjee
• Michael Hobson
• Nadia Saba
• Nicola Key

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bournemouth · Bristol City · Derby City · Leicestershire · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Swindon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAPITAL OF CYCLING.

• CAPITAL OF CYCLING income £181k
• CYCLING PROJECTS income £770k
• The Cycle (INGO) income £441k
• RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL income £231k
• CORNWALL LIFE RECYCLE CIO income £362k
• LONDON CYCLING CAMPAIGN income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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