LIVABILITY

Registered charity 1116530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q21006827 · Wikipedia · also known as GROOMS - SHAFTESBURY, JOHN GROOMS, SHAFTESBURY

Livability is the disability charity committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them. Every day, we deliver a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services to over 1,000 people who are at the heart of everything we do. Our Christian ethos is why we were founded in 1844 and it's why we still exist today.

Objects

3.1 TO ASSIST OR EDUCATE ANY PERSON IN CHARITABLE NEED, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DISABLED PERSON AND THE PARENTS, GUARDIANS AND CARERS OF SUCH PEOPLE BY WHATEVER MEANS; AND3.2 TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE FOR CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS, OTHER CHRISTIAN GROUPINGS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS SEEKING TO ALLEVIATE CHARITABLE NEEDS,IN EACH CASE IN A MANNER WHICH AUTHENTICATES THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS MORAL PRINCIPLES IN A SPIRIT OF LOVE AND PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN SERVICE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS 'CHRISTIAN FAITH' MEANS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS REVEALED AND EXPRESSED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £1.4m for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a planned demerger of Kingsley Hall Church & Community Centre. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate financial resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 05967087 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Hobson Charity — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)
• The Valentine Charitable Trust — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)
• The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)
• The Thomson-Bree Charitable Trust — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)
• Talbot Village Trust — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)
• Screwfix Foundation — “We would like to thank, amongst many generous donors; The Hobson Charity; The Valentine Charitable Trust, The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charit…” (source page)

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.

• SHARPE, Samuel John — director, appointed 08/12/2025not on trustee list
• VILLIERS, Theresa, Dame — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Marianne Elizabeth, Dame — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• NUTT, Jennifer Lucy Alison — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• QUINLAN-RAHMAN, Lisa Michelle — director, appointed 22/06/2022on trustee list
• FRITH, Richard Michael Cokayne, The Rt Revd — director, appointed 15/04/2022on trustee list
• INGRAM, Duncan George — director, appointed 15/04/2022on trustee list
• WOODALL, Peter Malcolm — director, appointed 16/01/2020on trustee list
• WILSON, Andrew — director, appointed 21/03/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

64 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (49 freehold); recorded price paid £570k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Livability — Registered, 63 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 14/12/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (15,193 likes) · instagram (536 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Shaftesbury St Giles: Not Rated · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Cranfield Court: Good (10/12/2022) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Anvil House: Good (30/04/2019) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Bradbury Court: Good (11/03/2022) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury East Anglia: Good (22/02/2019) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Brookside House: Outstanding (30/08/2019) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Dolphin Court: Good (01/11/2019) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury John Grooms Court: Good (14/12/2019) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Keefield: Good (30/12/2023) · CQC record
• Shaftesbury Kenway Court: Good (04/04/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• DUNCAN INGRAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Quinlan-Rahman
• Lucy Nutt
• Marianne Griffiths
• Peter Woodall · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Revd Richard Frith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sam Sharpe
• Theresa Villiers

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACCESS FOR LIVING.

• ACCESS FOR LIVING income £2.5m
• LIVE! income £709k
• Living Church income £161k
• THE BUILD CHARITY income £115k
• LIFE CENTRAL income £44k
• Disability Together Limited income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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