Phab Life

Registered charity 1178032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PHAB SHOP, The Phab Shop, The Phabulous Cafe

The Phab Charity Shop provides a training environment for people with additional needs in a real working environment. Our clients receive assistance in learning new retail skills from one to one assistance to support being on hand when required.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are- To promote social inclusion for the public benefit for people who are disabled, have a mental health issue or learning disability who are excluded from society, or part of society as a result of their disability, mental health issue or learning disability by relieving the needs of those people and assisting them to integrate into society. - To advance the social education and training of disabled people within South East Essex due to their social or economic circumstances or otherwise, are in need and unable to gain employment in the United Kingdom.- To relieve the needs of people who are disabled, have a mental health issue or a learning disability by providing volunteering and training opportunities within The Phab Shop and The Phabulous Caf? and by such other means as the trustees decide. - To relieve the charitable needs of disabled people within South East Essex in particular but not exclusively by: improving the involvement and representation of disabled peoplepromoting greater awareness of disability within the South East Essex community.

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rochford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£18k
Latest spending
£29k
Registered
2018

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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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2025

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Government income: £3,417 — grants £3,417 (3,417); 19% of the £18,179 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 30
  • Government income: £4,780 — grants £4,780 (1); 14% of the £33,501 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2023

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit
  • Has a trading subsidiary

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 30/04/2021 (received 19/05/2022, 80 days after the 28/02/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/04/2025£18k£29k
30/04/2024£34k£42k
30/04/2023£174k£178k
30/04/2022£191k£174k
30/04/2021£88k£64k

Common questions

Who funds Phab Life?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Phab Life as a grant recipient include ROSCA TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ROSCA TRUSTFY2023£2k
ROSCA TRUSTFY2024Unverified read£2k

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).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund01/05/2026£19kPhab Life Inclusive Community Spaces Project
UK government22/09/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund