ROUTES4LIFE LIMITED

Registered charity 1208823 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Routes4Life Ltd provides education for students aged 19 to 25 with complex learning needs. Through personalised learning programmes, students develop functional life skills to enable them to be prepared for their future lives. Some students may be supported into work, supported living or to a community activity programme. The provision prepares them for a successful transition.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY, ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED PRIMARILY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO 19 TO 25 WITH LEARNING AND OTHER DISABILITIES LIVING PRIMARILY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO DEVELOP THEIR INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVE LIFE CHANCES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

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

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Registered contact address: Havering, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the period with £161,329 in total funds, comprising £132,526 in unrestricted funds and £28,808 in restricted capital funds. The trustees consider it prudent to hold three months of running costs as reserves, targeting £121,000, but the actual free reserves were £106,995, which is below this policy target. The charity relies on principal funding from the Department for Education and the London Borough of Havering Local Authority, with risks identified regarding funding volatility and lagged payments.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Jane Allenchair
• COLM JOSEPH NOLAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Carol Lamb
• KIM MCWILLIAM
• Smita Solanki

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

Operates in: Havering

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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