THE CYRENIANS LTD

Registered charity 500640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHANGING LIVES, TYNESIDE CYRENIANS LIMITED

Changing Lives is a national, charity which provides specialist support services to vulnerable people and their families. Our key themes of work include: housing & homelessness, drug & alcohol, women & children's and employment services. Our mission is 'changing lives, building futures'.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND OLD AGE IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING WORDS) FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POVERTY OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY ARE UNABLE TO FULFIL THEIR DUTIES AS CITIZENS OR THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THEIR EMPLOYERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group achieved a total surplus of £1,426,353 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £9,244,528. The charity reports it is debt-free, having repaid all outstanding bank loans, and maintains strong positive cash balances. However, the trustees note that the level of free reserves held (£1,716,138) is below their stated prudent target of approximately £3 million.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Homes England; 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00995799
• Trading subsidiary: TCUK HOMES LIMITED Companies House 08385555

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Changing Lives (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephen Bell OBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Neil Baird — Operations Director (source)
• David Bassam — Business Services Director (source)
• Lewis Murton — Finance Director (source)
• Faye Sunter — Director of Development (source)
• Kurran Hawksley — People & Culture Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• RACE, Jordan Lee — director, appointed 05/02/2026on trustee list
• FAWCETT, Gary — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• MAY, Anthony — director, appointed 24/01/2024on trustee list
• BOYACK, Lisa Maria — director, appointed 24/01/2024on trustee list
• FREW, Glynis Joan — director, appointed 12/01/2023on trustee list
• BARTON, Michael — director, appointed 12/12/2019on trustee list
• TELFORD, Lesley — director, appointed 10/05/2016on trustee list
• GUYON, Stephen — director, appointed 26/05/2015not on trustee list
• CARR, Susan — secretary, appointed 02/07/2007

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £240k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Cyrenians Ltd — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 03/10/2018. CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (12,291 followers) · instagram (2,332 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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).

• Ridley Villas: Good (30/11/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GLYNIS FREWchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony May · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Fawcett
• Jordan Race
• Lesley Telford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Boyack
• Michael Barton
• Steve Guyon

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHANGING OUR LIVES LTD.

• CHANGING OUR LIVES LTD income £318k
• CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER income £2.8m
• LIFE CHANGERS EMPOWERING MINISTRY income £74k
• COVENTRY CYRENIANS LIMITED income £2.3m
• LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH income £182k
• CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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