LIVING OUT

Registered charity 1165572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To help:* Christian brothers and sisters who experience same-sex attraction stay faithful to Biblical teaching on sexual ethics and flourish at the same time.* the Christian Church understand how they can better help those who experience same-sex attraction to flourish.* the wider world hear and understand that there is more than just one viable script for those who are same-sex attracted.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) ENCOURAGING EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONS TO WELCOME AND ACCEPT SAME SEX ATTRACTED INDIVIDUALS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH PASTORAL SUPPORT.(2) REPUDIATING ALL ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS WHICH VICTIMIZE OR DIMINISH PEOPLE WHOSE AFFECTIONS ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX.(3) PROVIDING PASTORAL SUPPORT AND ADVICE IN RELATION TO BIBLICAL TEACHINGS ON HUMAN SEXUALITY ASSISTING SAME SEX ATTRACTED CHRISTIANS RECONCILE THEIR SEXUALITY WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE.

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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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a planned deficit of £59,112 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a reduction of reserves. Funding from donations and grants remained at a high level, comparable to the previous year, while operational costs excluding specific project expenditures remained broadly stable. The charity holds no borrowings and has provided no guarantees.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev'd Dr Paul Chamberlainchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Lamb
• Rev. Dr Stuart Douglas Keir
• Rosemary Patricia Dunn · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Rev Gordon Keith Sinclair · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVING BREAD FELLOWSHIP CHURCH.

• LIVING BREAD FELLOWSHIP CHURCH income £26k
• 'JUST LOVE' income £387k
• Out Together income £87k
• LIFE CENTRAL income £44k
• CHRISTIAN CAUSE income £63k
• LIFE CHURCH (EUROPE) income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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