Uniting Friends Ltd

Analysis

Uniting Friends Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ilford. It was registered in October 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, economic/community development/employment and recreation, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06495763). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Uniting Friends Ltd reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.3m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £1.2m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Uniting Friends Ltd sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Weston and District Community Transport Limited (£1.2m), Tayyab Trust UK (£1.2m) and Migrateful (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £235k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 33 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.