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Raise Limited

Benfits Advice Training Team

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1112830
Status
Registered
Registered
Jan. 25, 2006
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester

Address

Address
Raise
107 Great Mersey Street
LIVERPOOL
L5 2PL

Activities

We provide welfare rights and debt advice and casework assistance, and financial inclusion advice by home visit and telephone to Housing Association tenants in Merseyside, and to other residents of Liverpool, and training in welfare rights, debt and financial literacy to the general public. We also provide support to social housing tenants aimed at improving their financial confidence.

Objects: To Relieve Poor Persons By The Provision To Such Persons Of Legal And Advice Services Which They Could Not Otherwise Obtain Through Lack Of Means; Andto Promote And Advance The Education Of The Public By The Improvement And Diffusion Of Knowledge And Practice Of The Law And Administration Of Justice Having Regard Especially To Those Areas Of Law And Practice Which Are Of Concern To Poor People And Which Are Directed To Relief Of Poverty; Andto Promote Other Charitable Objects For The Benefit Of The Community.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
March 31, 2025 £640,187 £534,708 £314,840 16
March 31, 2024 £552,119 £545,471 £214,736 18
March 31, 2023 £673,274 £713,726 £208,088 25
March 31, 2022 £786,572 £804,858 £248,540 26
March 31, 2021 £711,898 £690,565 £266,826 25

Trustees

Name Appointed
Chris Hudson (Chair) July 15, 2020
Andrew Stephen Wilson
Benjamin Peach Feb. 25, 2026
David Babatunde Akinola Nov. 19, 2025
Julie Guinan Feb. 16, 2012
Jon Metcalfe Jan. 21, 2026
Rachael Stott May 11, 2022
Simon Thornton Nov. 19, 2025
Weronica Roznowska Nov. 19, 2025