THE HEALTHY LIVING PLATFORM

Registered charity 1195487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEALTHY LIVING PLATFORM

The prevention or relief of poverty for the public benefit by providing food, baby clothing and baby essentials to individuals in need and charities and voluntary organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.To preserve and protect good health for the public benefit by providing or assisting in the provision of education on health awareness, healthy eating, training and other projects

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO, TO BE CARRIED OUT IN LONDON AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF ENGLAND AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, ARE:1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING FOOD, BABY CLOTHING AND BABY ESSENTIALS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, AND BY PROVIDING SUCH ORGANISATIONS WITH FACILITIES FOR THE PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD. 2) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION ON HEALTH AWARENESS, HEALTHY EATING, TRAINING AND OTHER APPROPRIATE PROJECTS THAT ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN GAINING ACCESS TO, GROWING AND PREPARING NUTRITIOUS FOOD.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £155,591, with unrestricted reserves rising to £161,205, while restricted funds held a deficit of £5,614. The trustees report a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue beyond April 2027 due to a lack of formally secured funding beyond October 2026, though they remain confident in securing future resources.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 01/08/2024, 2 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Healthy Living Platform (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tanya Spencechair
• Bel-Olivia Osas
• David Wood
• Giles Gibson
• Janet Baker

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT.

• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• HEALTH LIMITED income £10.0m
• HIGH STREET FITNESS & WELLBEING income £127k
• HUMAN HEALTH AND WELFARE FOUNDATION income £89k
• HEALTH THROUGH SPORT LIMITED income £39k
• PARENTING FOR LIFELONG HEALTH income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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