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.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £12,568 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds increasing to £129,434. Unrestricted reserves stood at £109,682, which exceeds the stated policy target of covering one year's expenditure. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no material matters identified.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 10/03/2025, 130 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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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
• SUPPORTING LIVES income £134k
• NEWLIFE TRUST income £35k
• LIFE CHURCH (EUROPE) income £1.2m
• THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £589k
• TRINITY MINISTRIES CHARITABLE TRUST income £127k

Side by side with its peers

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