INDEPENDENT LIVES (DISABILITY)

Registered charity 1153815 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INDEPENDENT LIVES

Information, advice and support to people about Direct Payments, Personal Health Budgets and personalisation, choice and control over their health and care support needs. Working as a strategic partner to the County Councils to develop local information, advice and support solutions, provided by local user led organisations. Lend a hand our CQC registered home care services for disabled people.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £125,703 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted reserves of £682,568. The trustees report that the charity moved back into surplus after an investment year in 2023, despite challenges from inflation and reduced contract uplifts. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: INDEPENDENT LIVES (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 05545068 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08654797

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Independent Lives (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.

• MCGREGOR, Lucas — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• CASEY, Lucy — director, appointed 24/04/2025on trustee list
• HEWSON, Toby — director, appointed 14/12/2023on trustee list
• SIGANPORIA, Adil — director, appointed 25/04/2022on trustee list
• TUCK, Joanna — director, appointed 07/11/2019on trustee list
• GREEN, Chandos David — director, appointed 19/06/2017on trustee list
• WILSON, Simon David — director, appointed 19/06/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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: Independent Lives (Disability) — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 13/04/2021. CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Independent Lives (Disability): Good (12/05/2021) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EVA ERIKSSONchair
• Adil Siganporia · trustee of 2 other charities
• Barbara Cifer
• Gemma Baldwin
• Joanna Tuck
• Lucas McGregor
• Lucy Casey
• Toby Hewson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.

• SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING income £3.5m
• Disability Assist for Independent Living income £278k
• DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
• NORFOLK COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £1.4m
• DEWIS CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING income £2.1m
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k

Side by side with its peers

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