SAFELIVES

Registered charity 1106864 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAADA, CO-ORDINATED ACTION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE, CO-ORDINATED RESPONSE AND ADVOCACY RESOURCE GROUP · also registered in Scotland as SC048291 (OSCR)

SafeLives, formerly known as CAADA is a national charity supporting a strong multi-agency response to domestic abuse. SafeLives provides practical tools, training, guidance, quality assurance, policy and data insight to support professionals and organisations working with domestic abuse victims. The aim is to protect the highest risk victims and their children.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THOSE OBJECTS) TO PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE PUBLIC, VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY AGENCIES IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE AND FAMILY VIOLENCE, ITS CAUSES, REMEDIES AND PREVENTION

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

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 · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £673k for the year ended 30 June 2025, a reversal from the previous year's surplus. Unrestricted reserves were deliberately drawn down to £2,023k, representing 3.93 months of core operating costs, which is below the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months. The trustees project a further deficit for 2025/26 and note that continued deficits are not sustainable.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05203237

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SafeLives (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tracey Bleakley — Interim CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• MILLER, Maria Frances Lewis, Dame — director, appointed 29/04/2025on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Patrick Michael — director, appointed 17/09/2024on trustee list
• HANDLEY, Rebecca Anna Marie — director, appointed 17/09/2024on trustee list
• HAWKINS-LONGLEY, Emily — director, appointed 17/09/2024on trustee list
• BEGUM, Shana — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• BILLINGHAM, Zoe Ann — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• SYMINGTON, Timothy Douglas, Mr. — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• HUGHES, Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/12/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Maria Frances Lewis Millerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Hawkins-Longley
• Patrick Michael Mitchell
• Rebecca Handley
• Shana Begum
• Timothy Douglas Symington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zoe Ann Billingham

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• SATEDA LIMITED income £755k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• SAFENET DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SUPPORT SERVICES LTD income £8.0m
• SAFETY WELLBEING AND CHALLENGING ABUSE income £1.1m
• SAFE SPACES ENGLAND AND WALES income £572k
• FRIENDS OF SURVIVORS AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE (SADA) income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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