KEY4LIFE CIO

Registered charity 1152426 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEY4LIFE

The charity works with ex-offenders, their families and those at risk of receiving a custodial sentence and their families, by means of a dynamic rehabilitation programme and early intervention

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £44,074, resulting in total funds carried forward of £641,279. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £100,658 are below the stated policy target of £135,000 (equivalent to two months' operational expenditure). The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Key4Life (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 21.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL VON STERNBERGchair
• Adrian Cox
• Alexa Collis
• Caroline Sharon Dollimore
• Dr Michael Dooley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Jane Brewer
• Solomon Joseph Pascal Curtis
• Walid Yusef Haddouch

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).