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In community we get to Know each other by spending time together. Friendship and trust are really important in L'Arche.

We want to be able to make choices in our lives and in our Communities, and create more opportunities to try new things, learn together, and help each one of us grow.

We know sometimes people don't know about their rights or how to say what they want. Sometimes it can be hard to speak up.

We want to be brave in speaking up when people with disabilities are treated unfairly by society in access to health services, employment opportunities and relationships.

We want to keep having courageous conversations about the things that are good, but also about the things that are hard and how we can make things better together.

In the pages that follow, there are plenty of examples of what has given us life over the past year and what is challenging us. You'll also discover what we are doing to get better organised, in order to have more beautiful community and brilliant care in L'Arche today.

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WAay The beauty of L'Arche to me means everyone is welcomed to be a part of our Community. We uphold what If means 2024 Inclusion Survey Respondent

As the crisis in social care deepens, service providers have become increasingly dependent on international recruitment. In recent years, overseas workers made up one in five new care recruits. Since 2024, however, rising visa costs and tighter sponsorship rules have led to an 85% drop in overseas care worker visas.

L'Arche in the UK welcomes people from more than 50 different countries. Building Communities that are culturally and religiously diverse, where everyone truly finds their place and we all learn how to be interculturally competent, can be challenging. But we embrace the challenge and celebrate being different and diverse.

At the same time, in September 2024 we launched a brand new programme, Soulful Internships, targeted specifically at people who are British or already based in the UK. Offering weekly formation in personal and spiritual growth, the programme is designed for those who might not otherwise consider a career in social care, but who have a sense of vocation to share life alongside people who are marginalised.

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But for us, outstanding care means making sure people with learning disabilities lead vibrant and connected lives beyond care. People like Nick in L'Arche Ipswich - who, besides looking after his beloved guinea pigs, volunteers at the local Cats Protection charity shop, exhibits his brilliant paintings on Instagram and enjoys going out for a beer with his friends.

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Our 2030 action 2030 action action plan sets out how we we can get the get the the most out of resources in four key areas - people, money, care and support, housing - in order for L'Arche to survive and thrive in the years to come.

In 2024-25, we piloted a new Soulful Internship programme in L'Arche Kent, Edinburgh and Manchester, combining a year of living and working ina L'Arche Community while developing spiritual and reflective practice. Three of the six interns from year one chose to stay on in L'Arche. After the success of year one, we are doubling doubling the cohort cohort of interns in year two. two.

When the Government's 2024 budget imposed a 42% increase in our National Insurance contributions, adding over £1m to our annual pay bill, the immediate priority became our Stronger Finances Plan, which would enable us to weather the storm.

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Over six months, we reconciled our 12 finance databases into a single software system, and updated our budget templates, resulting in more accurate accounting, better use of resources and speedier reporting of accounts.

We introduced monthly management account meetings with all Communities, empowering Community Leaders to have more ownership over their budgets and take swift corrective action where necessary.

We recruited credit control specialists to reduce debts owed to L'Arche by local authorities. Between February and August 2025, we reduced outstanding debts from £2.8m to £1.9m.

Thanks to generous funding grants, we invested in new digital care (Nourish) and digital rostering (Sona) systems. These have already improved recordkeeping, enabled more efficient rostering of assistants, and helped us become more responsive to the changing needs of those we support.

We improved the professionalism in responding to behaviour that can be challenging, by building and training a group of ten practice leaders to upskills our teams in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), and we provided training ina trauma-informed approach fo care for our support feams and members of our National Speaking Council.

We invested in a system (Carecubed) to audit our care contracts against national benchmarking data, including market rates and salaries, to ensure our contracts reflect the real cost of the care we provide. Using this data, we have successfully renegotiated care packages - in some cases, resulting in an additional £1k income per week.

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We created a service improvement plan and began undertaking stock condition surveys of all properties we own, in order to be able to plan maintenance and development over the next five years.

We have audited the usage of the properties we own and manage. Asa result, we are selling one property that is no longer an essential asset, in order to replenish our reserves.

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closer to nature. | discovered the amazingjoy of mean something for me too, but these times of
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| too started to see God in the people around When|| set off, | was was a bit nervous as as I'd never me. | started noticing the beauty in creation, been a church-goer or a church-goer or church-goer or or really been around around and finding more joy in moments of daily life. Christians before. | wasn't sure what what to When I came back to the UK | was expect from them and from them and them and and what they they really blessed to find the University would expect from from me. These times of Chaplaincy where | was baptised connection and and received into the church. I've It turns out | didn't have trust in a higher continued on this discovery of my anything to worry about. | was power began to inner life ever since. madeit to feel very welcome and change how| felt was clear that | was open to bout th Id As Christians, or people of all be muself and that | would be ADOU © WOT. faiths or none, in L'Arche, we don't accepted for who | was. | didn't just want to lead parallel lives. We want have to pretend to believe something to create places of real encounter, so that | didn't believe, but it was really important by sharing, reflecting and learning together, to me to joinin as muchas! couldto help people our spiritual life becomes both deeper and more live their faith. | remember that one time we open to the gift of each another. | am so blessed were praying in a little chapel in the garden of to have friends across L'Arche who have walked the house| lived in, and | realised | didn't know with me on my own journey. the Our Father in English, my mother tongue, though I'd become used fo saying it in Spanish. | hope that whatever that whatever whatever path of discovery discovery and

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of the Charitable Company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report including the Strategic report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law, the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charitable Company and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP (FRS 102):
make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards (FRS 102) have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charitable Company will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Charitable Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charitable Company and enable them fo ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charitable Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Disclosure of information to auditor

Each of the persons who are trustees at the time when this trustees’ report is approved has confirmed that:

so far as that trustee is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the charity's auditor is unaware, and
that trustee has taken all the steps that ought to have been taken as a trustee in order fo be aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditor is aware of that information.

Auditor

Sumer Auditco Limited were appointed as auditor to the company following BHP LLP becoming part of the Sumer Group on 31 December 2025, which required a change in audit firm to comply with applicable regulatory requirements.In accordance with section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006, Sumer Auditco Limited are deemed to be reappointed annually.

Approved by order of the members of the board of trustees and signed on their behalf bu:

Acdan Marareevy Aedan MacGreevy

Chair of Trustees Date: 19.2.2026

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF L'ARCHE

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely fo become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the FRC's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities.

This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006, and to the charitable companu's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Regulation 10 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Neil Baldwin (Senior statutory auditor)

for and on behalf of

Sumer Auditco Limited New Chartford House Centurion Way Cleckheaton West Yorkshire BDI19 3QB

Date: 20.2.2026

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L'ARCHE BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST JULY 2025


Fixed assets
Tangible assets									12		8,567,325			8,892,006
Investments									13		98,347			103,178
Current assets											8,665,672			8,995,184
Debtors									14	3,435,510		3,632,474
Cash	at	bank		and in hand						1,459,425			874,183
										4,894,935		4,506,657
Current Liabilities
Creditors:			amounts falling				due	within one year 15		(1,402,042)		(1,232,291)

Net current assets											3,492,893			3,274,366

Total	assets lesscurrent liabilities										12,158,565			12,269,550
Creditors: amountsfallingdue					dueaffermore	more	morethanoneyear 6				(112,210)			(222,492)
Total	netassets										12,046,355			12,047,058

Charityfunds		funds
Endowment funds									17		24,150			34,965
Restricted funds									17		516,622			506,316
Unrestricted funds									17		11,505,583			11,505,777

Total	Funds										12,046,355			12,047,058

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and preparation of financial statements.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the trustees and signed on their behalf bu:

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Aedan MacGreevy Jonathan Carter
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Date: 19.2.2026

The notes on pages 42 to 63 form part of these financial statements

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You can join us in the life-changing L'Arche journey in many ways:

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Find out more at:

ft) www.larche.org.uk £) www.facebook.com/UK.LARCHE

Memberships and Associations:

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AUDITOR

Sumer Auditco Limited, New Chartford House, Centurion Way, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, BD19 3QB

BANKERS

National Westminster Bank plc

63 North Street, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD21 3SB

Royal Bank of Scotland plc

PO Box 5663, Ist Floor, Affric House, Beechwood Park, Inverness IV2 3YR

L'Arche A company limited by guarantee Registered in England and Wales, No. 1055041 Registered Charity Nos. 264166 and SCO38493

Registered Office: L'Arche National Office, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JB Tel: 0161 438 2832 Email: info@larche.org.uk Website: wwwlarche.org.uk

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