Coram Family Lives

Registered charity 1077722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAMILY LIVES, FAMILYLIVES, PARENTLINE PLUS · also registered in Scotland as SC047967 (OSCR)

We provide a range of services to support families face to face, on the phone and on-line. Including: Parentline, free 24hr confidential helpline; extended support for complex, difficult issues; online advice, livechat/email, ask the expert, peer support and information on all aspects of family live; face to face support, group parenting programmes and workshops.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND FAMILIES.2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, LEGAL, MEDICAL OR OTHER PROBLEMS AND EXPERIENCES FOR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FAMILIES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.3. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS AND FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF AN ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THOSE UNABLE TO ACCESS SUCH RESOURCES.

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.

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Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £75k for the year, resulting in free reserves of £874k. The trustees consider these reserves sufficient to provide an orderly wind-down if necessary, with a buffer of £354k above the policy target of £520k. The auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03817762

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coram Family Lives (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jeremy Todd — Managing Director of Coram Family Lives (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Stowe Family Law — “We are incredibly grateful to the UK’s leading specialist family law firm, Stowe Family Law for their generous donation to Family Lives in s…” (source page)

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.

• DAWSON, Celia Anne — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• MOTT, Francesca — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• NEWTON, Jon — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• GIANNOTTA, Rebecca — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• HALL, Chris — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• HARRIES, Eluned — director, appointed 10/05/2023on trustee list
• RUPANI, Neena — director, appointed 19/05/2016on trustee list
• BAYLISS, Stuart Philip — director, appointed 08/09/1999on trustee list
• TODD, Jeremy — secretary, appointed 05/01/2009

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 ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neena Rupanichair
• Chris Hall
• Eluned Harries · trustee of 1 other charity
• Francesca Mott
• Her Honour Judge Celia Dawson
• Jon Newton
• Rebecca Giannotta
• STUART BAYLISS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORAM FAMILY AND CHILDCARE LTD.

• CORAM FAMILY AND CHILDCARE LTD income £438k
• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m
• COMMUNITY, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND EDUCATION income £60k
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• BECOMING FAMILIES income £77k
• THOMAS CORAM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (FORMERLY FOUNDLING HOSPITAL) income £27.6m

Side by side with its peers

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