LIVE!

Registered charity 1160972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Live! provides high quality learning and recreation activities which are accessible and responsive to the needs of children, young people and adults with disabilities. Live! is committed to promoting integration, celebrates peoples' differences and recognises and implements equal opportunities throughout the organisation. Live! provides activities through a wide range of weekly club sessions.

Objects

3. OBJECTSTHE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATION AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES SO AS TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITIES TO MAKE INFORMED CHOICES ABOUT THEIR INDIVIDUAL LIFESTYLES WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY;3.2 TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £127,986 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £157,986. The trustees maintain a reserves policy requiring at least three months of running costs, and the current unrestricted balance exceeds this threshold. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cara Morgan Williams
• Elizabeth Jane Perry
• Graham Frederick Warren
• MARY HYDE
• Nichola Dawn Burton
• RICHARD LEWIS
• Ryan Gould · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Potts

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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