UNITING FRIENDS LTD

Registered charity 1126190 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Uniting Friends is a social inclusion project for adults with learning disabilities

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF REDBRIDGE AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £33,514 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £235,138. The trustees note that funds are sufficient for medium-term operation given continued funder support, but acknowledge that further financial support would be needed if this support ceases. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of approximately three months of unrestricted expenditure, which the trustees confirmed they achieved within the financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fredericks Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,000 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,000 - £90,000 (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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06495763

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Russell Lerner — CEO (source)
• Ana Moreira — Director of Admin, Finance and HR (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MILLER, Ellie — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• RAINS, Peter Francis — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• REED, David Leon — director, appointed 22/11/2017on trustee list
• BRETT, Allan — director, appointed 06/02/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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

• ALLAN CHARLES BRETT
• David Leon Reed
• Ellie Miller
• Peter Francis Rains

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

Operates in: Essex · Havering · Redbridge · Waltham Forest

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 FRIENDS AND PLACES TOGETHER.

• FRIENDS AND PLACES TOGETHER income £148k
• DEAF UNITY income £148k
• ABOUT WITH FRIENDS income £2.7m
• FRIENDS FIRST income £132k
• B:FRIEND income £413k
• THE UNITY CENTRE LIMITED 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.