LUMI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1172800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing practices of yoga to individuals and communities who would otherwise not have access to yoga by reasons of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. Coordinating and training yoga teachers, conducting research and coordinating relationships with community groups and other charities

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING PRACTICES OF YOGA TO INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN ENGLAND WHO WOULD OTHERWISE NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOGA BY REASONS OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, PRACTICES OF YOGA MEANS:1) PHYSICAL ASANA (YOGA) EXERCISES, 2) MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS PRACTICES, AND3) PHILOSOPHICAL / PERSONAL INQUIRY

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that Lumi Foundation ended the 2024 financial year with a net surplus of £27,199, bringing total net assets to £79,120. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £77,148, which the trustees describe as a buffer for unforeseen expenditure to deliver free and low-cost services. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lumi Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• lululemon here to be — “We are grateful to be supported by the following grant-giving bodies: lululemon here to be” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ARI ISO-RAUTIOchair
• Catherine Ramasamy
• Kamaldeep Takhar
• Sara Benjamin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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