LIV (UK)

Registered charity 1141320 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIV, LUNGISANI INDLELA

The relief of sickness and the promotion of good healthThe advancement of EducationThe relief or prevention of poverty and financial hardshipThe advancement of the Christian faith

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS"), BEING PRIMARILY UNDERTAKEN IN SOUTH AFRICA BUT NOTRESTRICTED TO THIS AREA, ARE(I) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION(IN) THE RELIEF OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP(IV) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITHTHESE OBJECTS SHALL BE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE TO BE ACHIEVED BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEESDETERMINE INCLUDING BY PROVIDING GRANTS, FINANCE, RESOURCES, ADVICE OR ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TOORGANISATIONS WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA

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 · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £18,023 for the year ended 31 January 2026, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £13,533. This reserve level is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining three to six months' expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, and the trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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.

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 31/01/2023 (received 08/02/2024, 70 days after the 30/11/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07141262 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LIV (UK) (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.

• HEPPER, Samuel Edward — director, appointed 17/02/2026on trustee list
• CROW, Helen, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2021on trustee list
• MCCLEAN, Mark Russell — director, appointed 01/09/2019not on trustee list
• SMITH, Joan Diane — director, appointed 30/01/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Judith Ann Smith
• JOAN DIANA SMITH
• Luke Daniel Walton
• Mark Russell McLean
• Samuel Edward Hepper

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

Operates in: South Africa

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 MATTERS.

• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• SIMPLE REASON income £61k
• Liver UK income £2.5m
• Livingston Charitable Trust income £489k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• LEV CHAIM income £192k

Side by side with its peers

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