CORAM LIFE EDUCATION

Registered charity 800727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L E C, LIFE EDUCATION, LIFE EDUCATION CENTRES

(I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN RESPECT OF THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING AND WITH PARTICULAR RESPECT TO THE DANGERS OF DRUGS AND ADDICTIVE MATERIALS AND SUBSTANCES (II) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £63,871 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a total deficit of £47,620. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were at a deficit of £95,585, which is below the stated policy target of four months' expenditure (£279,384). The trustees attribute the deficit to insufficient school income and reduced donations, noting that the parent entity Coram has provided an undertaking to support the charity if needed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andre Charles Bailey
• Andrew Lovell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frances Soul · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Hadley · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Whittingham
• John Pickett
• Kevin Robert John Dupree
• Olivia Margo

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORAM LIFE EDUCATION WEST MERCIA.

• CORAM LIFE EDUCATION WEST MERCIA income £115k
• CORAM FAMILY AND CHILDCARE LTD income £438k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £231k
• THOMAS CORAM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (FORMERLY FOUNDLING HOSPITAL) income £27.6m
• LIFE EDUCATION EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED income £355k
• LIFE EDUCATION (BRADFORD) LIMITED income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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