CHANGING LIVES CHARITY

Registered charity 1161892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANDREW HOUSE, RE:MISSION

The charity is active in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, enabling men and women to regain independence following a period of dependency on drugs , alcohol or the use of both. It has a social enterprise which helps men and women get ready for work by providing opportunities for purposeful voluntary work in retail services. This includes free tuition for appropriate volunteers.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £47,778 for the year ended 30 September 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. The trustees confirm the charity is solvent with adequate free reserves to meet day-to-day commitments and anticipate modest surpluses for the next three years. Post-year-end refinancing has further strengthened the balance sheet.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09517906

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.

• ALDWINCKLE, Catriona Mary — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Kenneth Martin — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
• SCHAEFER, Jennifer Ann, Dr — director, appointed 27/01/2022on trustee list
• SIBTHORPE, Daniel Patrick — director, appointed 22/09/2021on trustee list
• BURNHAM, Ian John — director, appointed 28/04/2017not on trustee list
• MEARS, Terence Frederick — secretary, appointed 31/03/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £451k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (65% 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: 46.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catriona Aldwinckle
• Daniel Patrick Sibthorpe
• Dr Jennifer Ann Schaefer
• IAN BURNHAM FCA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kenneth Martin Knight · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Somerset · South Gloucestershire

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).

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 CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER.

• CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER income £2.8m
• CHANGING LIVES DIDCOT income £172k
• CHANGING PATHWAYS income £2.9m
• THE CYRENIANS LTD income £38.0m
• HELP CHANGE LIVES income £600k
• CHANCE CHANGING LIVES income £202k

Side by side with its peers

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