FIRST LOVE FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1137819 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TOWER HAMLETS FOODBANK

First Love Foundation is a Christian charity working for a world where people are able to live sustainable and independent lives. We do this through the design and delivery of projects, with advocacy - holistic and person-centered in design that not only tackles poverty and its underlying causes - but seeks to restore income, dignity, thus reducing dependence on long term charitable food support.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY;2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THEIR AGE, GENDER, RACE, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; WHERE THEY ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY;3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RETRAINING AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE;4. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £68,353 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £231,415 to £163,062. The trustees state that reserves are held to provide working capital for at least three months of running costs, and they remain confident the charity can continue as a going concern due to partner support. Despite the deficit, the charity secured significant welfare payments for clients and maintained its core operations.

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 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
• 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 — First Love Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Albert Houslin
• Jennifer Izekor
• Nina Sharon Wright
• Terene Donaldson

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FIRST LOVE GLOBAL MINISTRIES.

• FIRST LOVE GLOBAL MINISTRIES income £34k
• FIRST LOVE CALVARY CHURCH income £37k
• FIRST LOVE CHURCH income £2.9m
• FIRST FRUIT income £2.0m
• FIRM FOUNDATION TRUST income £36k
• THE ONE LOVE PROJECT income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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