PSS (UK)
Registered charity 224469 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIVERPOOL PERSONAL SERVICE SOCIETY (INC ), PSS
PSS services are designed to plug the gaps and provide on the ground support to a wide array of people. We recognise when people are in need and find new and practical ways to get the most from life. We work with elderly and disabled people in the community, with families caught up in the criminal justice system or in need, and in a preventative way with families and people at risk
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £0.1m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £23.8m and expenditure of £23.5m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £6.9m, which the trustees consider satisfactory and sufficient to cover anticipated expenditure for ten to twelve weeks.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Shared Lives (77% of income)
“Our Shared Lives service remains the strongest, generating 77% of our income.” — page 37
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: PSS Commercial Services Limited
“The company has a £1 investment representing 100% of the issued ordinary share capital of PSS Commercial Services Limited incorporated in England. The subsidiary has been dormant throughout the year.” — page 66
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
PSS COMMERCIAL SERVICES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- No specific intra-group transactions or balances are disclosed; the company is dormant.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — PSS (UK) (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.
- PARKINSON, Nicola — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
- BRAMWELL, Richard John — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
- SHAW, Helen — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
- BELL, Colin Philip — director, appointed 23/03/2021on trustee list
- MITCHELL, Beverley Catherine — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
- ROTHWELL, Matthew Thomas — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
- COOKE, Julie — director, appointed 30/03/2017not on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: PSS (UK) — Registered, 18 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 28/04/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£788
Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).
Care Quality Commission ratings
CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).
- PSS Shared Lives Staffordshire: Good (04/05/2019) · CQC record
- PSS Shared Lives (Manchester): Good (30/08/2018) · CQC record
- PSS Shared Lives Norfolk and Suffolk: Good (29/12/2018) · CQC record
- PSS Merseyside: Good (19/10/2019) · CQC record
- PSS Shared Lives Lincolnshire: Good (10/06/2021) · CQC record
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (09/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Beverley Catherine Mitchell
- Colin Philip Bell
- Helen Shaw
- Matthew Thomas Rothwell
- Mx Isaac Samuels OBE
- Nicola Parkinson
- Richard John Bramwell
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is PSS (UK) financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £0.1m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £23.8m and expenditure of £23.5m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £6.9m, which the trustees consider satisfactory and sufficient to cover anticipated expenditure for ten to twelve weeks. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.
Who funds PSS (UK)?
Funders whose own accounts filings name PSS (UK) as a grant recipient include MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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