THE FOYER FEDERATION

Registered charity 1040482 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOYER FEDERATION FOR YOUTH

The Foyer Federation continues to be seen as an organisation that punches above its weight and our focus on innovation has helped us develop relationships and enabled us to demonstrate how the Foyer approach can be 'stretched' so that it works for all those whose transition to adulthood is particularyly challenging in settings that go well beyond the traditional supported housing model.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS OR OTHERWISE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN PARTICULAR AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION AND TRAINING (INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING) COUPLED WITH ADVICE AND COUNSELLING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a deficit of £106,540, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £293,732. The trustees confirm that there are adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least a year from the date of signing. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02699839

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Foyer Federation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Albert Hunt Trust — “Our Funders: The Albert Hunt Trust website (external page)” (source page)
• Berkeley Foundation — “Berkeley Foundation website (external page)” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation website (external page)” (source page)
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Paul Hamlyn Foundation website (external page)” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DAVY-DUPRIS, Jack — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• KAZIMIERCZAK, Marcel Pawel — director, appointed 17/02/2026on trustee list
• FOFANAH, Alieu — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• MCDERMID, Leona Kaye — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• JOSEPH, Louise Ann — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• WILSON, Alastair John — director, appointed 24/01/2022on trustee list
• ADEYEMI, Hannah Oluwadamilaara — director, appointed 03/01/2022on trustee list
• LIN, Fiona Jia Ying — director, appointed 15/09/2021on trustee list
• WARD, Andrew Glenn — director, appointed 20/03/2020on trustee list
• MIDDLETON, Rachel Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 07/12/2020

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Wilson
• Alieu Fofanah
• Andrew Ward
• Fiona Jia-Ying Lin
• Hannah Oluwadamilaara Adeyemi
• Jack Davy-Dupris
• Leona Kaye McDermid
• Louise Ann Joseph
• Marcel Pawel Kazimierczak

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH FEDERATION LIMITED.

• YOUTH FEDERATION LIMITED income £2.1m
• DENBIGHSHIRE FOYER LIMITED income £44k
• THE THOMAS THEYER FOUNDATION income £126k
• THE WHITEHAVEN FOYER income £191k
• FUSION FAMILY AND YOUTH PROJECTS income £68k
• THE YOUNG FOUNDATION income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.