IDEAL FOR ALL LIMITED

Registered charity 1070112 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SANDWELL DLC, SANDWELL INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTRE

Ideal For All is a user led organisation promoting inclusion and independent living for people with disabilities. It does this by providing a diverse range of services to enable people with disabilities to live as independent a life as possible.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE AGED SICK OR PERSONS WITH A PHYSICAL LEARNING OR SENSORY DISABILITY IN THE SANDWELL AREA OF THE WEST MIDLANDS WHO REQUIRE ASSISTANCE TO REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND LEAD FULFILLING LIVES

Area of benefit: SANDWELL AREA OF THE WEST MIDLANDS

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a modest surplus of £33,095 and unrestricted free reserves of £660,382. Although these reserves are below the trustees' stated target range of £734,982 to £1,102,473, the trustees believe this reflects deliberate investment in service delivery. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Feltons. 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ideal for All (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lindsey Bucknor — Chairperson (source)
• Khatija Patel — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Heart of England Community Foundation — “Heart of England Community Foundation - Inclusive Communities” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities” (source page)
• The Wolfson Foundation — “The Wolfson Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lindsey Bucknorchair
• ANTHONY ASHFIELD
• Anjulaben Kalyan
• CAROL GOFF
• DOREEN VEALE
• Diane Campbell
• Dr Mohamed Laradi
• Mohammed Haque
• Neil Alan Herman · trustee of 1 other charity
• SANJIV VERMA · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED.

• IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED income £12.1m
• PARITY FOR DISABILITY income £1.9m
• INDEPENDENT LIVING ALTERNATIVES income £1.8m
• DISABILITY SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING LIMITED income £994k
• INDEPENDENT LIVES (DISABILITY) income £3.3m
• HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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