LIFEBRIDGE ASEND

Registered charity 1172089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We act as a resource for young people with special educational needs and disabilities in the Greater Manchester, South Lancashire and surrounding areas by providing support, educational, physical and other activities to improve their life chances and wellbeing. We respond to the changing needs of current and future learning, to maximise the potential of every individual who participates.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £54,751 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a negative net asset position of £-54,751. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £7,037, while total reserves were £306,741, with significant portions restricted for specific purposes or fixed assets. The trustees consider the charity to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Byrd + Link Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09687513 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Haslam — Principal (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• HANBURY, Martin Antony Wilfrid — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• DUNNE, Jennifer — director, appointed 09/05/2024on trustee list
• DAWSON, Caroline Jane — director, appointed 15/07/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE JANE DAWSON
• Jennifer Dunne
• Martin Hanbury

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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