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.

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

Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

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

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £660k; policy: between six and nine months of the previous years unrestricted fund expenditure plus any staff funded from restricted expenditure)
“The trustees recognise that reserves are below the target range but believe this to be a reasonable position at present”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Ideal For All Enterprises Limited
“The following is a subsidiary undertaking of the company: Ideal For All Enterprises Limited”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Feltons. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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).

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

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

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£660k
Employees
36

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.5m£1.5m
31/03/2024£1.3m£1.3m
31/03/2023£1.3m£1.3m
31/03/2022£1.3m£1.2m
31/03/2021£1.4m£1.2m

Common questions

Is IDEAL FOR ALL LIMITED financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Feltons.

Who funds IDEAL FOR ALL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name IDEAL FOR ALL LIMITED as a grant recipient include SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.), THE SAINTBURY TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.)FY2024£31kRelated party grant
SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.)FY2025£6kRelated party transaction
SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.)FY2023£5kRelated party grant (Trustee connection)
THE SAINTBURY TRUSTFY2025£2kRelief of those in Need by reason of Youth, Age, Ill-Health, Disability, Financial Hardship or other Disadvantage

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund26/02/2026£20kGreen Growth for All
The National Lottery Community Fund27/07/2023£454kBetter Health for All (Building Connections with Nature & the Community
Disability Action01/11/2020£24kNET Coronavirus Appeal Emergency Fund for Disabled People Organisations UK-wide
UK government01/04/2019£40kBuilding Connections Fund - Youth strand
The National Lottery Community Fund19/02/2019£100kGrowing Buddies
UK government04/02/2019£25kWomen Side by Side
UK government01/01/2019£40kBuilding Connections Fund - Youth strand
UK government20/12/2018£10kBuilding Connections Fund - Community Spaces
UK government01/04/2018£18kJourney to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs (2018)
The National Lottery Community Fund07/02/2013£10kPlot to Plate
The National Lottery Community Fund28/10/2010£3kMedia for All
UK government—£51kJobs to Employment (J2E) payments to DPULOs and VSOs)

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 DISABILITY SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
IDEAL FOR ALL LIMITED£1.5m—0below—no doubt
DISABILITY SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING LIMITED FY2025£994k—0unclear—noted
INDEPENDENT LIVING ALTERNATIVES FY2025£1.8m—0unclear—no doubt
DISABILITY POSITIVE FY2025£4.2m——unclear—no doubt
DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY FY2025£2.5m——unclear—no doubt
EQUALITY TOGETHER FY2025£1.2m—0below—no doubt

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