JUSTLIFE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1140822 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Justlife exists to peoples stay in homeless temporary accommodation short safe and healthy. We work nationally to support and influence the improvement of temporary accommodation and our services in Greater Manchester and Brighton and Hove regions meet the needs of those living in temporary accommodation.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY [OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP] ANYWHERE IN THE WORLDBY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTSAND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLEINCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 27% to £1.9M, while expenditure decreased by 1.5%, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Free reserves have increased to £140K, which the trustees report sits within their stated policy range of £100K to £200K, indicating a return to a stable financial position after previous concerns.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £100k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 5.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Steellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amy Rebekah Sheehan Daly
• Dr Simone Bennafsi
• Francesca Albanese
• HELEN JOANNE EVANS
• Hilary Burkitt
• Jack Shaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lee Treanor
• Nicolas Alexander Ulrich WYKEMAN
• Rebekah Turner
• Rosemary Madeleine Avis
• Thomas Neumark Jones

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Manchester City · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JUSTUS.

• JUSTUS income £47k
• RESTART LIVES income £315k
• JUST HOMES CHARITY income £1.9m
• HOUSING JUSTICE income £3.0m
• SSG SUSTAINABLE LIVING income £1.8m
• JUST CARE LTD income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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