LIFE CENTRE

Registered charity 1127779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Face to face, email and group counselling services and telephone and text helplines for men, women and child survivors of sexual abuse and rape and their close family members and supporters. We also provide training to organisations.

Objects

"TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED SEXUAL ABUSE BY THE PROVISION OF A COUNSELLING SERVICE AND OTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF LIFE CENTRE".

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £44,866 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £754,068. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £521,491, which is below the stated policy target of 9 to 12 months of expected expenditure. The trustees confirm that the level of reserves is sufficient to support the charity on a going concern basis.

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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREA CLARKEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Serena North
• MR ALISTAIR MACFARLANE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret Ellis
• Mark Oliver

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

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 CHOICES.

• CHOICES income £152k
• SURVIVE (SUPPORT FOR SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE) income £546k
• TRUST HOUSE READING income £650k
• WOMEN AND GIRLS NETWORK income £7.3m
• ST MARTIN'S CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HEALING income £727k
• THE SURVIVORS' NETWORK LIMITED income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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