LIFELONG ABILITY NORTH EAST (LANE)

Registered charity 1210217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

Lifelong Ability North East (LANE) is an organisation supporting adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ADULTS IN NORTH TYNESIDE WHO ARE DISABLED, AUTISTIC OR HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A DAY SERVICE THAT NURTURES SKILL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS, CONFIDENCE, INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £17,407 and a net liability position of £72,735 as of 31 May 2025. The trustees have established a reserves policy target of 3-6 months of core operating costs to ensure financial sustainability. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainty disclosed.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gill Gray
• Harry Bucknall
• Lesley Forrester
• Sara Jenson
• Sharon Denley
• Wendy Hawley

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FIELD LANE FOUNDATION.

• THE FIELD LANE FOUNDATION income £11.2m
• LANTRA income £13.5m
• LANE END FARM TRUST income £190k
• LD:NORTHEAST income £1.4m
• LANDAU LIMITED income £2.9m
• THE JESUS LANE TRUST income £242k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.