Living with Equal Opportunities Ltd

Registered charity 1108948 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLAY ASSOCIATION HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM

Living with Equal Opportunities promotes, supports and develops high-quality play opportunities and services for children and young people in Hammersmith & Fulham and surrounding boroughs. It provides support, advice, guidance, training and resources to small voluntary and community groups that deliver play and youth activities for children and young people in Hammersmith & Fulham.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAY, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM, BEING FACILITIES OF WHICH SUCH CHILDREN HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, SPECIAL NEED OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING.

Area of benefit: HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a strong financial position and is financially sustainable, maintaining three months of reserves. The organization is currently investing in staff development and relocating to new premises, while steadily repaying a Government Bounce Back Loan. Despite challenges such as service closures due to fire alarm issues, the charity continues to deliver services and secure funding.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Financial reserves 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
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Julia Rausing Trust — “Big thank you to the Julia Rausing Trust for funding the summer trips during the holidays, this year.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• DAwn Rawlins
• GARY JOHN SWEETMAN
• Jade Rawlins
• Jessica Quinn
• Kerry Clifford

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM YOUTH ZONE.

• HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM YOUTH ZONE income £10.4m
• WALTHAMSTOW TOY LIBRARY AND PLAY CENTRE income £254k
• YOUNG HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM FOUNDATION income £422k
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• ISLINGTON PLAY ASSOCIATION income £1.4m
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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