MY LIFE

Registered charity 1180933 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STUDENT LIFE · also registered in Scotland as SC054672 (OSCR)

Supporting the mental health of children, young people and adults in education and the criminal justice system, with the aim of encouraging and educating those we collaborate with, to support and promote a less stigmatised outlook on mental health. We offer mental health training to young people in education and to people classified as NEET, including prison settings across England

Objects

For the public benefit, the promotion of good mental health, in particular but not exclusively, to those within schools, prisons and young offender institutions by providing services such as mental health awareness training; mental health ambassador programmes, and the production of films about mental health.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £8,470 for the year ended 30 June 2026, following a surplus in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, this movement was principally attributable to a reduction in grant income received during the year. The charity's free reserves decreased to £56,935 at year-end, which the trustees note is below the policy target of three months of core expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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.

In the news

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

• Philanthropist Sir Stanley Thomas visits Centre for Student Life cardiff.ac.uk · 27/01/2020
• Building work starts on Centre for Student Life cardiff.ac.uk · 26/09/2018
• Milestone for Centre for Student Life cardiff.ac.uk · 26/09/2018
• A taste of student life at Cambridge jesus.cam.ac.uk · 27/02/2017
• Lecturer receives main accolade at student life awards cardiff.ac.uk · 10/05/2016

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD STEWARTchair
• LOUISE DICKMAN
• ROSIE WEDGE

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EDUCATION FOR LIFE.

• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• OPENMIND.ED income £34k
• USER VOICE income £784k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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