FREEDOMS ARK TRUST

Registered charity 1040704 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Freedom's Ark Trust is a Christian charity demonstrating the love of God by serving the community through practical, spiritual, and social support. Our services include Freedom's Ark Church, Tottenham Foodbank as part of the Trussell network, and the Community Food Hub, tackling food waste, insecurity, and isolation while building skills and confidence.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION B)TO RELIEVE NEED HARDSHIP AND PERSONS WHO ARE AGED OR SICK C) GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF BENEFIT TO THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NORTH LONDON

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £51,719 for the year ended 30 November 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £248,970 to £197,251. Free unrestricted liquid reserves amounted to £110,452, which the Trustees consider adequate to fulfil obligations. The Trustees are satisfied that the charity is in a strong position to continue its activities during the coming year.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Valentine Obi
• Naomi Tomisin
• Rev Matthew Johnson
• Rev ONIMIM LOLOBA OBUNGE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH.

• THE ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH income £115k
• THE ARK FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE income £391k
• TRUE FREEDOM TRUST income £178k
• THE ARK MISSION AT TRINITY LIMITED income £165k
• Ark Cancer Charity income £384k
• ARK RESETTLEMENT SERVICES income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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