CHANGING OUR LIVES LTD

Registered charity 1093883 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEOPLE FIRST (SANDWELL) LIMITED, SANDWELL PEOPLE FIRST

Changing Our Lives is a rights-based organisation that works in co-production with disabled people and people with lived experience of mental health difficulties of all ages to achieve equality, good health and social inclusion. Our vision is of a society in which disabled people are valued and equal citizens. No one is too disabled, too challenging, or too complex to live an ordinary life.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE AND SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES, SENSORY DISABILITIES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES, AS WELL AS PEOPLE ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM AND PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE LIVING OR WORKING IN ENGLAND, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE EMPOWERED TO LEAD AS INDEPENDENT, FULL AND PRODUCTIVE A LIFE AS POSSIBLE AND MAXIMISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £303,830, which the trustees confirm has been maintained at the policy level of nine months' expenditure. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing its fund balance from £321,203 to £303,830, while maintaining a positive cash position of £222,047.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04404093 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PEREPA, Prithvi — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• HARDING, Rosalind Joyce — director, appointed 11/01/2019on trustee list
• BAKER, John Harvey — director, appointed 06/05/2009on trustee list
• MIDDLETON, Anthony John — director, appointed 18/07/2007not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN BAKERchair
• Prithvi Perepa
• Rosalind Joyce Harding
• TONY MIDDLETON

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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