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Registered charity 1165791 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising funds to donate and maintain specialist technologies for children and young people using palliative care services throughout the British Isles.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational loss of £645k for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net movement in funds of £621k. The trustees attribute this deficit to planned investments in strategic objectives and income diversification, noting that reserves are expected to decrease year on year as programmes are delivered. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains total net assets of £4,137k, including £685k in free reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lifelites (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 ~38.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 62.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony David George Harveychair
• Christine Jane Shuttleworth
• Helen Elizabeth Fleming
• Howard Gerald Wilson
• Jonathan Eliot Mentell
• Kieran Vaughan Stewart
• Luis Caicedo Grisales
• Timothy Sherwood
• Tracy Jannine Rennie

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINDSEY LODGE LIMITED.

• LINDSEY LODGE LIMITED income £5.0m
• LIFE FOR A KID FOUNDATION income £177k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE MEDICINE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £483k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• BUTTERWICK LIMITED income £3.6m
• THE END OF LIFE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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