LIFE CHANGES COUNSELLING

Registered charity 1114553 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Life Changes is a community counselling service based in Southampton and providing support for all adults in need of emotional support able to travel to one of its centres. We operate from non-medical community buildings in areas of multiple deprivation and ethnic diversity.

Objects

1 THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND OF DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC; AND2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE TRAINING OF COUNSELLORS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £13,657.22 for the year, increasing unrestricted reserves to £38,707.74. The trustees describe the financial position as stable with adequate reserves, despite noting a tight position and reliance on new grant funding to compensate for lost contracts. The core service broke even in May and June but saw income drop again in the summer months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery — “Life Changes is pleased to announce we have obtained a Lottery Grant and can once more fund a limited number of financially challenged clien…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Philip Gareth Wheyman Meakins LRCP MRCSchair
• Anne Louise Hall
• Benjamin Edward Rose
• Christopher Reginald Orton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Karen Temple

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER.

• CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER income £2.8m
• We Change Lives (WCL) income £12.0m
• HELP CHANGE LIVES income £600k
• LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH income £182k
• CHANGES HEALTH & WELLBEING income £3.5m
• CHANGING LIVES CHARITY income £757k

Side by side with its peers

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