CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER
Registered charity 1139983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHANGING LIVES IN CHESHIRE, CLIC - CHANGING LIVES IN CHESHIRE
Changing Lives Together provides affordable furniture and electrical items and Community Transport. We also work extensively with our local community and support people through a variety of work, training and volunteering programmes for vulnerable, disabled and excluded individuals.
Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £83,611 for the year ended 31 December 2024, compared to a surplus in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £414,983, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three months of routine expenditure as per their reserves policy.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of routine expenditure (held: £415k)
“The Trustees have agreed that the appropriate level of unrestricted liquid reserves should be sufficient to cover 3 months of routine expenditure i.e. to provide working capital to cover delays in the receipt of payments and grants and to provide a cushion for unexpected emergencies.” — page 6
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Murray Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Changing Lives Together (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- David Grocott — Chief Executive Officer (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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (69% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (20/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Bernadette McEvilly
- Brian Gordon Dunn
- Brian Michael Clarke
- Christina Frances Lees Jones
- Gillian Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
- Heidi Elizabeth Lesley Dilliway-Nickson
- Kayleigh Atherton
- Maurice McBride
- Peter Price
- Ruth Blackhurst
- Tony Baxter
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Warrington
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £83,611 for the year ended 31 December 2024, compared to a surplus in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £414,983, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three months of routine expenditure as per their reserves policy. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Murray Smith LLP.
Who funds CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER as a grant recipient include THE MOULDING FOUNDATION, TARPORLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TRUST, EARL OF CHESTER'S FUND.
Known funders
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