NEWLIFE THE CHARITY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

Registered charity 1170125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BDF NEWLIFE, NEWLIFE CHARITY, NEWLIFE FOUNDATION FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

Newlife changes the lives of disabled and terminally ill children across the UK.We grant or loan thousands of items of equipment every year, often in emergency situations. We provide information and support to families through a dedicated Nurse service. We campaign to give disabled children and their families a voice and we fund pioneering medical research to give hope for the future.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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 total incoming resources decreased by 10% to £15.4m, driven by a drop in commercial income, while charitable expenditure fell to £3.9m. The charity holds total funds of £3.97m, with unrestricted reserves of £3.32m, which the trustees note are currently higher than their agreed minimum target of £3.3 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (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: 80.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLIVE LEWIS
• Christopher Chaney
• Jane Edgerton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julian Burnett
• Kathryn Griffith
• LEONARD LEWIS
• NIGEL LEWIS
• PROFESSOR MICHAEL PATTON
• Vanessa Sloane

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

Operates in: 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 NEW LIFE.

• NEW LIFE income £271k
• CHILDLIFE income £1.4m
• NEW LIFE HOME TRUST UK CIO income £118k
• NEW LIFE CHILDREN'S CENTRES income £230k
• TINY LIVES TRUST income £853k
• NEW FUTURES NEPAL LIMITED income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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