Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 6

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 1

LIDO FOUNDATION

The Lido Foundation provide the following service.Information and Advice:We provide advice on welfare, benefits, housing, debt, application support to people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The service is open 3 days a week.By signposting and advising residents, the Lido Foundation is reducing social exclusion. Instead of falling homeless or into other desperate circumstances.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 7 years
(10 years as a company)

www.lidofoundation.org.uk

Info@lidofoundation.org.uk

02081506165

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/01/23	£252	£247	£5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/01/22	£497	£497	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/21	£410	£304	£106	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/20	£198	£171	£27	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/01/19	£170	£160	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/01/18	£83	£77	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
2 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Tudor Trust	£77,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£45,000
The London Community Foundation	£10,000
Hammersmith United Charities	£4,200

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - [Wave 5 LCRF] Universal Credit advice
£45,000	18/03/2021 11	The project is using funding to support the Universal Credit advice provision to mainly Ethiopian and Somali communities in West London. Support includes assistance with Universal Credit entitlement ....more The project is using funding to support the Universal Credit advice provision to mainly Ethiopian and Somali communities in West London. Support includes assistance with Universal Credit entitlement through appeals helping claimants to meet evidence requirements. This will be offered over telephone zoom and eventually face-to-face when it is permitted. This project will deliver activities to alleviate challenges for those who are disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Lido Foundation
£2,000	10/03/2021	as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Lido Foundation
£10,000	11/12/2020 2	The funding is for distribution of ready-made hot meals to 80 clients for 7 weeks.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Lido Foundation
£75,000	10/07/2020 36	over three years towards the CEO's salary and other core costs at a charity which aims to empower disadvantaged people from BAME communities, with a specific focus on the Somali community, in West ....more over three years towards the CEO's salary and other core costs at a charity which aims to empower disadvantaged people from BAME communities, with a specific focus on the Somali community, in West London.
Hammersmith United Charities - Provide telephone support for people from the Somali community affected by homelessness or unemloyment due to COVID 19.
£4,200	01/05/2020	Towards Advocacy Relief Officer.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Lido Foundation
£4,400	25/09/2017	purchase an IT suite for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in London
Trust for London - Lido Foundation
£35,000	07/06/2017 36	The funding is towards providing Information and Advice to disadvantaged members of the Somali community in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and surrounding areas. This will include ....more The funding is towards providing Information and Advice to disadvantaged members of the Somali community in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and surrounding areas. This will include information and advice on welfare, benefits (Job Seekers Allowance, Universal Credit, Child Benefit, Employment Support Allowance and Housing Benefit), completing applications (passport, school admissions)

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 26-43

FARHIA YUSUF Appointed: 2019, Occupation: House Wife

HAMZA MUSE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Administrator

SAFI MOHAMED ALI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/12/2016, number: 1170908
Registered at Companies House on 09/01/2014, number: 08838578

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

Office E
Stebbing House
5 Queensdale Crescent
LONDON
W11 4TE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SOMALIA, KENYA & UGANDA BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY AID IN DISASTER STRICKEN AREAS. THE PREVENTION OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS TO THOSE IN NEED.

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