LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION CHARITY

Registered charity 1172680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Life Skills Education Charity develop and deliver DAaRT (Drug, Alcohol and Resilience Training) resources in schools. Our programmes are independently evaluated and proven to work, put together using evidence from research and follow government guidelines and best practice. Our team of trained facilitators deliver our programmes to over 13,000 young people in over 300 schools each year.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 9 TO 16 THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES WHO ARE VULNERABLE TO BECOMING ADDICTED TO OR DEPENDENT UPON DRUGS, IN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND RAISING AWARENESS THROUGH EVIDENCED BASED LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an accounting deficit of £47,250, reducing unrestricted reserves to £1,037. However, the trustees report that the organisation remained cash secure with £67,166 in the bank, supported by a social investment loan from the Charities Aid Foundation. The trustees acknowledge the deficit is partly due to reallocations to the next financial year and assert that secured future income places the charity on a strong footing for continued growth.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07742739

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Life Skills Education (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HAWKINS, Justin — director, appointed 17/03/2026on trustee list
• WELSH, Nuala — director, appointed 10/06/2025on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Matthew Simon — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• COX, Reginald James — director, appointed 03/10/2022on trustee list
• WHEATLEY, Thomas Richard — director, appointed 03/10/2022on trustee list
• LONGCROFT, Stuart Alan — secretary, appointed 16/08/2011

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Phillipschair
• Justin Hawkins
• Nuala Welsh
• Reginald Cox
• Thomas Richard Wheatley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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 LIFESKILLS LEARNING FOR LIVING.

• LIFESKILLS LEARNING FOR LIVING income £320k
• THE LEARNING SKILLS TRUST income £193k
• JOB SKILLS TRAINING ASSOCIATION income £48k
• REDEARTH EDUCATION income £51k
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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