OCTAVIA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1065817 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCTAVIA HILL HOUSING TRUST FOUNDATION, OCTAVIA HILL HOUSING TRUST FRIENDS FOUNDATION

The Octavia Foundation works with people affected by unemployment, ill health, social isolation or low incomes to connect them with opportunities for positive personal change. We deliver services in five key areas: care and support for older and vulnerable people work with young people help with training and employment help with money and debt involving the community

Objects

THE FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED TO FURTHER THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF OCTAVIA HOUSING PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR THE POOR, THE DISABLED AND THE AGED.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation reported a deficit of £149k for the year, resulting in net current liabilities of £281k. To address this, investments were divested after the year end to settle intercompany balances owed to Group undertakings, returning the Statement of Financial Position to a net current assets position. The Trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by a Letter of Support from its ultimate parent.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. 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
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 18/06/2025, 138 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Octavia Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Elizabeth Porteouschair
• Ahmed Saleh
• Oyedokun Oluwaseyi Lou Taylor
• Paul Joseph Randle
• Veronica Gordon

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

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF OCTAVIA.

• THE FRIENDS OF OCTAVIA income £67k
• ATAXIA UK income £1.8m
• OLIVIA SIEFF FOUNDATION income £11k
• OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.7m
• VOLUNTEERING MATTERS income £5.7m
• ARTICLE 25 income £991k

Side by side with its peers

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