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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-4.1. TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR AND TO PROMOTE BASIC AND CLINIC RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, EFFECTS, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND RELIEF OF PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES THAT ARE PRESENT AT BIRTH OR CAUSED BEFORE BIRTH PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE DISSEMINATED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;4.2. THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND FINANCIAL AID FOR SUCH PERSONS, THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDENTS AND FOR THE FAMILIES AND DEPENDENTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FROM SUCH DISABILITIES SUCH PROVISION BEING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND FINANCIAL AID;4.3. THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE FOR PREGNANT MOTHERS WHERE IT IS CONSIDERED THERE IS A DANGER OF THEIR CHILD BEING BORN WITH PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY;4.4. THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WHO ARE UNABLE OR HAVE DIFFICULTY IN HAVING CHILDREN OR BECOMING PREGNANT;4.5. SUCH LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH INTO AND THE RELIEF OF PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY OF ALL KINDS ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH AFFECT PARENTS AND CHILDREN PRIOR TO CONCEPTION AND DURING PREGNANCY AND SUBSEQUENT TO BIRTH PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE DISSEMINATED FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE PUBLIC;4.6. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG DISABLED YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR DISABILITY, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, TRAINING, WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE, VOLUNTEERING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES THEREBY ASSISTING THEM TO BETTER INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY; AND4.7. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROMOTION OF WASTE REDUCTION, RE-USE, RECLAMATION, RECYCLING AND THE USE OF SURPLUS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cannock Chase, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 31/03/2023, 59 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Newlife charity in BBC Radio 4 appeal to help more children like Bobby yorkshirepost.co.uk · 14/07/2025
• Designer outlet to support Newlife charity greaterbirminghamchambers.com · 22/04/2024

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 (19,952 followers) · instagram (5,594 followers)

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 3.7%) (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

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CHILDLIFE.

• CHILDLIFE income £1.6m
• NEWLIFE TRUST income £35k
• NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH TONYREFAIL income £44k
• NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £78k
• NEW LIFE DOMESTIC income £34k
• NEW LIFE BIBLE CHURCH income £331k

Side by side with its peers

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