Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

LUMOS FOUNDATION 

Lumos works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children by facilitating the end of institutional care for good. It does this in two ways:At a policy level to accelerate and improve the quality of reform in health, education and social protection servicesAt a practical level working with providers of children's services to demonstrate the value of family-based care
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • This charity is endorsed by a respected charity impact evaluator
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 18 years

www.wearelumos.org

info@wearelumos.org

020 7253 6464

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£7,150£7,411£-261£1,444£3,549£2,9394.8710
31/12/21£4,944£8,181£-3,237£1,561£3,606£3,2464.81180
31/12/20£5,518£9,926£-4,408£1,757£6,731£6,4907.81420
31/12/19£9,733£12,756£-3,023£2,262£11,501£11,25110.614912
31/12/18£7,110£11,934£-4,824£2,375£13,984£12,67012.71270
31/12/17£8,845£7,969£876£1,075£19,046£17,87526.9910
31/12/16£8,774£6,459£2,314£1,050£17,923£15,85629.5780
31/12/15£4,986£4,335£650£529£14,368£13,38837.1740
31/12/14£3,204£3,815£-611£471£13,674£13,26541.7750
31/12/13£4,476£3,231£1,245£514£14,089£13,78951.2650
31/12/12£3,759£3,098£661£317£11,907£11,90146.1600
31/12/11£795£2,416£-1,621£184£10,583£10,54452.4430
31/12/10£443£4,100£-3,657£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£2,374£1,627£747£235£16,511£16,490121.680
31/12/08£341£1,623£-1,282£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07*£2,009£988£1,021£132£2,369£2,36928.8150
31/12/06*£1,764£416£1,348£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 48%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 10%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 25%
Liabilities/Income: 16%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 4.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 3
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 71 employees
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bulgaria, Colombia, Kenya, Moldova, Panama, Throughout England, Ukraine, United States,

Who's supporting them? ?

Endorsed by:
  • UBS Optimus
Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Comic Relief - Supporting the delivery of Lumos Foundation’s organizational strategy
£2,456,968 29/11/2017
60
Lumos’s vision is to end the use of orphanages and institutions for vulnerable children around the world by 2050, and ensure that all future generations of children can be raised in loving families ....more
Comic Relief - Ending the institutionalisation of children in Haiti
£277,657 27/05/2015
24
An estimated 8 million children live in institutions or orphanages globally. More than 80% of these children are not orphans. The primary reason for admission is poverty; additional triggers such as ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-73
  • JIMMY PAUL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Charity Director
  • NEENA GILL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Former Mep
  • USMAN ALI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Investment Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/12/2005, number: 1112575
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/11/2005, number: 05611912
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR07: 54 days late, AR06: 36 days late,
Main office

Lumos Foundation
3 - 7 Temple Chambers
London
EC4Y 0DA

Objectives

3.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS, THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OF CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD; AND3.2 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ANY PART OF THE WORLD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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