LIFETIMES CHARITY

Registered charity 1078984 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WANDSWORTH VOLUNTARY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, WANDSWORTH VOLUNTEER BUREAU, WVSDA

Lifetimes gives grants to necessitous people who reside in London and the Home counties. We work in partnership with chosen charities in our field of work. Current survivors of domestic violence, disabled children, ex veterans, homelessness, food banks and community pantries, local hospitals.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFITOF THE COMMUNITY IN LONDON, THE HOME COUNTIES ANDTHE SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREAOF BENEFIT") AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OFEDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OFPOVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. B) TO PROMOTE ANDORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THEABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER INCOUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARYORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THEAREA OF BENEFIT. THE HOME COUNTIES SHALL MEANBUCKINGHAMSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE, ESSEX, BERKSHIRE,MIDDLESEX, SURREY, KENT AND SUSSEX.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, CENTRAL LONDON, AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £52,091 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £149,531. Per the trustees' report, free/unrestricted reserves held at the year-end were £5,223,958, which the trustees consider prudent to guarantee the achievement of the business plan and remain a going concern.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~199.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (99% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NATHALIE GIBSON-WILSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Clarke
• Indira O'Reilly
• Jeanette Pullen
• MARIE LANE

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Essex · Hampshire · Hertfordshire · Kent · Surrey · Throughout London · West Berkshire · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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