LUMINARY LIMITED

Registered charity 1181835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Luminary Women (Luminary Ltd) works alongside women who've experienced multiple forms of disadvantage, including gender-based violence. We offer a holistic programme combining training, dedicated support work, community building & employment pathways. We use a trauma-informed approach to help women achieve empowerment, employment & independence, breaking cycles of poverty, violence & disadvantage.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF WOMEN WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE INCLUDING HOMELESSNESS; OR WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED OR AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC OR OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT INCLUDING DEVELOPING THEIR CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS TO BE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES AND PRINCIPLES.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted free reserves of £250,214, which equates to approximately 3.8 months of operating expenditure, falling within the trustees' updated policy target of three to six months. The charity reported a net income surplus of £109,439 for the year, driven by total incoming resources of £812,291 against total expenditure of £702,852. The trustees confirm that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, citing secured multi-year funding and a robust pipeline of future applications.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11651624 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Luminary Limited (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• WALIMUNI WIJESINGHE, Achini — director, appointed 02/12/2025not on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Rosy — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• WU, Jiamin — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• THAKRAR, Maria — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• LONGLEY, Caryl Annette — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• UPTON, Katherine — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• THYNNE, Raphaela — director, appointed 09/10/2023on trustee list
• PILANI, Tandekile — director, appointed 20/06/2023on trustee list
• FEENEY, Diane — director, appointed 20/06/2023on trustee list
• FORDE, Cliona — director, appointed 20/06/2023on trustee list
• MILTON, Jacqueline — director, appointed 20/06/2023on trustee list
• FEENEY, Diane — secretary, appointed 10/06/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 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 (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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Miltonchair
• Caryl Longley
• Cliona Forde
• Diane Feeney
• Jiamin Wu
• Katherine Upton
• Maria Thakrar
• Raphaela Thynne
• Rosy Phillips
• Tandekile Pilani
• Walimuni Wijesinghe

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED.

• LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £720k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• WOMEN IN PRISON LIMITED income £4.0m
• WOMEN'S AID IN LUTON income £1.1m
• PERIOD POWER income £50k
• LIGHTHOUSE - SUPPORTING WOMEN THROUGH STORMY TIMES income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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