THE LIVING ROOM

Registered charity 1080634 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Living Room provides free, structured, daytime group therapy in a supportive community for adults who are abstinent and addressing harmful patterns involving substances or behaviours. We also offer group therapy for families and carers of those affected.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE HEALTH OF ALL PERSONS WHO ARE IN DANGER OF BECOMING ADDICTED OR DEPENDANT UPON DRUGS OF ANY DESCRIPTION ALCOHOL, SOLVENTS OR OTHER ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES AND THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SUCH ADDICTION OR DEPENDENCY.

Area of benefit: STEVENAGE

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small operating deficit of £26,303 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £310,092. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £293,450, which is within the target range of three to four months of planned expenditure, and the trustees confirm the charity remains 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.

• 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
• 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

CQC provider record: The Living Room — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 03/01/2013.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Croftonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Akhilesh Nair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ashley Vaughan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kacey Elise Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Spencer James · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Roney · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LIVING ROOM.

• THE LIVING ROOM income £854k
• ROOM TO HEAL income £442k
• POWER TO LIVE FOUNDATION income £111k
• LIVINGWAY MINISTRIES income £158k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, TORQUAY income £221k
• RECYCLING LIVES CHARITY income £2.6m

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