SAVE THE FAMILY LTD

Registered charity 516484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LACHE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST LTD

Our mission is to support homeless families by providing emergency accommodation and education in basic/other life and social skills to enable families to get back on to the social ladder.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE THE ELDERLY, THE HANDICAPPED AND POOR PERSONS, THE HOMELESS AND FAMILIES IN CRISIS;2. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION;3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted working capital at the end of the year was £148,408, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £240,000 to £250,000. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with cash generated from operations being negative, resulting in a decrease in cash equivalents.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 6 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Save the Family (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Adamchair
• Claire O'Donnell
• Duncan Peter Thomas Boffey
• Joanne Byrne
• Lindsay Patricia Tanner
• Louise Helen Holmes
• Luke Kenneth Squires
• Tracy Ann McGinn

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Flintshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN.

• SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN income £7.2m
• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• SAVE OUR WORLD income £870k
• FAMILIES RELIEF income £458k
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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