Transforming Lives

Analysis

Transforming Lives is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in September 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Transforming Lives reported income of £62k and spending of £73k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £6,296 to £62k (+879%), an average of +77% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 802%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Transforming Lives sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The League of Friends West Wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital (£62k), The Leukaemia Unit Appeal Fund for the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley (£62k) and Gladstone Connect Limited (£62k).