LEARNING FOR LIFE UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1105277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472076

Learning for Life was established in 1993 as a reponse to the need for education, especially of girls, in South Asia. LfL works with local partners to bring education to areas where there is none, providing children with quality education from which they can build a life and break the chains of poverty.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, PROVIDE AND DEVELOP PROGRAMMES FOR EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE (INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN) WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED BY POVERTY, GEOGRAPHY, CONFLICT OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES IN SOUTH ASIA AND TO PROMOTE OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE.

Area of benefit: SOUTH ASIA.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased slightly to £41,357, while total funds increased to £126,038 due to a net income of £38,910. The trustees report that the organisation remains in a stable position with sufficient funding to sustain ongoing projects. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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 31/03/2022 (received 04/02/2023, 4 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN SIMMONDSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER SIMON HOUGH
• MINAXI VASANJI DESAI
• PEROSHA TENGRA
• SHERNAZ ENGINEER
• SUNIYA QURESHI · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · India · Nepal · Pakistan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAW FOR LIFE: THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION.

• LAW FOR LIFE: THE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION income £581k
• Learn For Life income £458k
• LIFE FOR A KID FOUNDATION income £177k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• LEARNING FOR LIFE WILTSHIRE income £60k
• EDUCATION FOR HEALTH income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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