SHARING LIFE TRUST

Registered charity 1100176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of services and support for people in poverty and need, both in the UK and Overseas.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£108k

Latest spending

£90k

Registered

2003

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity survived on a 'hand-to-mouth basis' for the past 20 years due to inherent uncertainty in cashflow from private donors. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £80,887 against a policy target of one year's expenditure, while total funds were £116,866. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total incoming resources.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one year's expenditure (held: £81k)

“Trustees agreed at the meeting on 6th September 2023 that we should place £50,000 into an instant access savings account to ensure the ongoing viability of the trust for a minimum period of one year should donations drop off significantly in the future. This policy of covering one year’s expenditure will be reviewed annually.” — page 3

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The Trust’s income is predominantly from private donors, with occasional income from successful grant applications. Consequently, there is some inherent uncertainty over future cashflow and over the past 20 years we have survived on something of a hand-to-mouth basis.” — page 3

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Governance: Late filing admitted

“When we submitted our 2023 accounts for inspection it became clear that the record-keeping was not complete and this led to the late filing of the Annual Return.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Trustees · trustee networks

PHILIP STRATTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
CHRISTINE WARING
Edward Fox · trustee of 1 other charity
JOHN HULETT · trustee of 2 other charities
Rev Ian Brown
STEVE EYRE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Burundi · India · Oxfordshire · Senegal

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£108k	£90k
31/12/2023	£95k	£63k
31/12/2022	£76k	£59k
31/12/2021	£61k	£57k
31/12/2020	£82k	£51k

Common questions

Is SHARING LIFE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity survived on a 'hand-to-mouth basis' for the past 20 years due to inherent uncertainty in cashflow from private donors. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £80,887 against a policy target of one year's expenditure, while total funds were £116,866. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total incoming resources. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SHARING LIFE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SHARING LIFE TRUST as a grant recipient include THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S, HADDENHAM.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S, HADDENHAM	FY2025	£3k	Donations over £500 listed in Fund Reconciliation notes under Love in Action/Tithe
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S, HADDENHAM	FY2024	£2k	Love in Action (formerly Tithe) payments / Mission giving

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE THALES CHARITABLE TRUST	1	—
THE NATIONWIDE FOUNDATION	1	£1.9m
MOONDANCE FOUNDATION	1	£524k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£276k
THE RAYNE FOUNDATION	1	£240k
TRUST FOR LONDON	1	£124k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£94k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£92k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHARED LIVES PLUS LIMITED.

SHARED LIVES PLUS LIMITED income £1.5m
Livingston Charitable Trust income £792k
SUPPORTING LIVES income £103k
THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £224k
SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE income £131k
CATCHINGLIVES income £485k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SHARING LIFE TRUST	£108k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
SHARED LIVES PLUS LIMITED FY2025	£1.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
Livingston Charitable Trust FY2024	£792k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SUPPORTING LIVES FY2024	£103k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£224k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE FY2025	£131k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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