MY LIFE FILMS LIMITED

Registered charity 1157198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

My Life Film's charitable objective is to improve the lives of people living with dementia, and support their families, friends and carers through the use of creative filmmaking, storytelling and content. My Life Films provides film and video based services for people living with dementia and their carers.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND CARERS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA AND ITS EFFECTS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small net deficit of £1,544 for the year ended 28 February 2025, following a deficit of £20,482 in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £134,070, which is above the stated policy target of £64,000 (representing two months of unrestricted funding). The trustees consider there to be 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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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 28/02/2023 (received 17/01/2024, 20 days after the 28/12/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — My Life Films (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Kannchair
• Emma Hewat
• Georgina Lestini
• Julian Garner Freeston
• Maana Ruia
• Sylvia Woon

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC FOR MY MIND.

• MUSIC FOR MY MIND income £111k
• MEDICAL AID FILMS LIMITED income £84k
• MY LIFE income £444k
• Arts for Dementia income £329k
• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• MOVING ON WITH LIFE & LEARNING LTD income £409k

Side by side with its peers

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