LIFE 2009

Registered charity 1128355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC041329 (OSCR)

Life is a UK Pregnancy support charity:Creating a world where no one faces pregnancy or pregnancy loss alone. Through our services, we help more than 45,000 people each year to meet pregnancy or pregnancy loss with courage and dignity so they can flourish. Our services include a freephone Helpline, housing and community support , free practical support, and crafting educational content.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: 1.1.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND OF UNSUPPORTED MOTHERS WITH ONE OR MORE INFANT CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING. 1.1.2 THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THAT OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND POOR PERSONS, INCLUDING THE TREATMENT OF PREGNANT WOMEN. 1.1.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO PREGNANCY AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The document provided is a management representation letter addressed to the auditors, confirming that financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material misstatements or known fraud. It does not contain specific financial data regarding reserves, income, or expenditure to assess the charity's financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 06786752 · Financial health read from its filings

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

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.

• AMOAKO-ADOFO, Carol — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• BOUVENG, Kerstin Rebecca — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• HEYMAN, Godfrey Henry Bernard — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• FOLEY, Martin Patrick — director, appointed 13/05/2023on trustee list
• NEEP, Eleftheria Chrysovalantou — director, appointed 13/05/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: LIFE 2009 — Deregistered, 1 registered location.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 49.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carol Amoako-Adofo
• Eileen Anne Maher
• Eleftheria Chrysovalantou Neep
• Godfrey Henry Bernard Heyman
• Kerstin Rebecca Bouveng
• MARTIN FOLEY

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FOUNDATION FOR LIFE.

• FOUNDATION FOR LIFE income £81k
• EVERY LIFE INTERNATIONAL income £524k
• FREE TO FLY income £53k
• LONDON TRUE LIFE CHURCH income £72k
• NEW LIFE income £271k
• THE ACTIVE PREGNANCY FOUNDATION income £96k

Side by side with its peers

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