LIDO FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1170908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Lido Foundation provide the following service.Information and Advice:We provide advice on welfare, benefits, housing, debt, application support to people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The service is open 3 days a week.By signposting and advising residents, the Lido Foundation is reducing social exclusion. Instead of falling homeless or into other desperate circumstances.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£94k

Latest spending

£162k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with minimal reserves and experienced a net decrease in total funds of £18,828 for the year. The trustees are actively working to build up the donor base to achieve a reserve policy target of six months' operating expenditure. Despite the financial deficit, the independent examiner confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Under £60,000

“No employee earned more than £60,000 during the year” — page 15

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £100k; policy: six months operating expenditure)

“The company currently operates with minimal reserves. The trustees are endeavouring to build up its donor base with a view to having reserves equal to six months operating expenditure.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Farhia Yusuf
Kamal Hassan
Safi Mohamed Ali

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/01/2026	£94k	£162k
31/01/2025	£120k	£139k
31/01/2024	£240k	£135k
31/01/2023	£252k	£247k
31/01/2022	£497k	£497k

Common questions

Is LIDO FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity operated with minimal reserves and experienced a net decrease in total funds of £18,828 for the year. The trustees are actively working to build up the donor base to achieve a reserve policy target of six months' operating expenditure. Despite the financial deficit, the independent examiner confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

What does the highest-paid employee of LIDO FOUNDATION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Under £60,000 band.

Who funds LIDO FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LIDO FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	FY2022	£20k	Support for the foundation’s administrator for one year.
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	FY2025	£15k	The grant will cover increasing core costs and contribute to the salary of the welfare advisor to meet the increasing demands of users. It will fund the Money A
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	FY2024	£15k	The grant will cover increasing core costs and contribute to the salary of the welfare advisor to meet the increasing demands of users. It will fund the Money A
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	FY2023	£15k	To fund the salary of an administrator to support people accessing Universal Credit Support, Housing Support, and access to resources to overcome poverty and is
HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES	FY2022	£400	Small grant to support the wellbeing of staff and volunteers

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/03/2021	£45k	[Wave 5 LCRF] Universal Credit advice

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE NEIGHBOURLY FOUNDATION	1	£1.3m
BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES	1	£1.0m
TRUST FOR LONDON	1	£800k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATION	1	£596k
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£357k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	1	£160k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	1	£55k
CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£51k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LCI MD 105 FOUNDATION.

LCI MD 105 FOUNDATION income £126k
PS FOUNDATION income £560k
THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.3m
One Housing Foundation income £221k
LSEG Foundation income £4.6m
THE JD FOUNDATION income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LIDO FOUNDATION	£94k	Under £60,000	0	below	—	no doubt
LCI MD 105 FOUNDATION FY2025	£126k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PS FOUNDATION FY2025	£560k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025	£9.3m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
One Housing Foundation FY2025	£221k	—	1	unclear	—	not going concern
LSEG Foundation FY2024	£4.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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