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Lumos Foundation
Identification number in the register: 849607914394-57
Registration date: 10/09/14 15:31:32
The information on this organisation was last modified on 10/09/14 15:33:20
The date of the last annual update was 10/09/14 15:31:32
Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Name/company name: Lumos Foundation
Acronym: Lumos
Legal status: Lumos Foundation (Lumos) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales number: 5611912 | Registered charity number: 1112575
Website address: http://www.wearelumos.org/
Sections
Section: III - Non-governmental organisations
and more precisely: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Person with legal responsibility
Surname, Name: Ms Georgette Mulheir
Position: CEO
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
Surname, Name: Ms Irina Papancheva
Position: EU Policy and Advocacy Adviser
Contact details:
Contact details of organisation's head office: 1-11 Gredley House Broadway
London E15 4BQ
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone number: (+44) 020 7253 6464
Fax number: (+44) 020 7253 6563
Other contact information: Lumos EU Liaison Office
Rue Royale / Koningsstraat 35
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)2 230 73 26
Lumos Bulgaria
5 Neofit Rilski Str. fl.3
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
t: +359 (0) 2 85 116 84
Lumos Czech Republic
Národní 9
Prague 1
110 00
Czech Republic
t: +420 224 283 453
Lumos Moldova
14/1 Banulescu Bodoni Str.
Chisinau, Moldova
MD-2012
t: +373 22 210 240
Goals / remit
Goals / remit of the organisation: Lumos is an international non-governmental organisation, set up by the author J.K. Rowling that works to end the systematic institutionalisation of children around the world. Worldwide eight million children are living in orphanages or other form of institutional care, where their needs cannot be met and where they are at risk of severe harm, abuse and neglect.
Our vision is a world in which all children have the opportunity to grow up in a safe and caring family setting, or where there is no alternative, the specialist placements that meet all their needs, respect their rights and ensure they can fulfil their potential. We work to transform education, health and social care systems for children and their families and help children move from institutions to family-based care.
Lumos works in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children, to transform outdated systems that drive families apart. Together with our partners we replace institutions with community based services that provide children with access to health, education and social care tailored to their individual needs. This supports families to provide the loving care their children need to develop to their full potential and build a positive future for themselves. Lumos is a founder member of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care, a member of the Global Alliance for Children and the Global Partnership for Children with Disabilities in Development.
Lumos Foundation (Lumos) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales number: 5611912. Lumos is registered as a charity in England and Wales with the registered charity number: 1112575.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
global
Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
Number of persons: 7
Complementary information:
Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
No accredited persons
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
Lumos is a children’s rights organisation working to end the institutionalisation of children worldwide. We work in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children, to move from outdated systems of institutional based care to family and community-based systems. We are a founding member of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care.
The EU plays a pivotal role in changing attitudes and shifting systems of care and support from institutional to community-based services. However, large sums of European funds have in the past been used to renovate existing institutions and build new ones. While the intentions of these processes were good, they have failed to understand that institutions cannot provide proper environments in which to raise children.
Lumos therefore has and continues to lobby for changes in legislation which will ensure that EU funds support the reform of the care systems, instead of being used to maintain outdated and harmful institutional models of care. In this regard, Lumos has lobbied the European Institutions to ensure that European Structural Funds will be used to dismantle institutions and replace them with community-based care services. In the future, Lumos intends to lobby the European Institutions with the same intention, focusing on other EU funding streams and policy initiatives targeting countries outside the EU.
Lumos also lobbies and intends to continue to advocate to the European Institutions on policy initiatives that may accelerate, threaten or otherwise influence the shift from institutional to community-based care.
During 2013-2014 we have co-hosted a conference and a round-table on this theme in the European Parliament, co hosted with the EC (on behalf of the European Expert Group) a seminar on the use of EU funds to support deinstitutionalisation in Bulgaria and responded to various EU consultations related to children’s rights.
Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
Fields declared by the organisation:
Development
Education
Employment and Social Affairs
Enlargement
External Relations
Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
Humanitarian Aid
Justice and Fundamental Rights
Regional Policy
Youth
Structure
Total number of members that are natural persons: 240
Number of member organisations:
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):
BELGIUM
BULGARIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
UNITED KINGDOM
Complementary information:
Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
This group emerged from the AdHoc Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based care. The group aims to serve as an informal advisory body to European institutions, member states and candidate countries in relation to institutional care reform, focusing on the rights of children, people with disabilities, including people with mental health problems, older persons and families.
Other members of the EEG are: COFACE (Confederation of Family Organisations in the EU), Eurochild, EASPD (European Association of Service Providers for People with Disabilities), EDF (European Disability Forum), ENIL/ECCL (European Network on Independent Living/European Coalition for Community Living), ESN (European Social Network), Inclusion Europe, Lumos, Mental Health Europe, OHCHR Regional Office for Europe and UNICEF.
Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (GPCwD) is a network of more than 240 organisations, that provides a platform for advocacy and collective action to ensure the rights of children with disabilities are included and prioritised by both the disability and the child rights movement. The GPCwD is set up of several task forces. Lumos hosts the secretariat of the Child Protection taskforce and is a member of the Taskforce on Inclusive Education.
Global Alliance for Children aims to harness international aid to support countries in their efforts to move children out of large institutions and into family and community-based care. Other members of the Global Alliance for Children are USAID, the World Bank, Childhood, Save the Children, the Canadian Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, New Venture Fund, UBS, GHR Foundation and Maestral International.
Financial data
Financial year: 01/2013 - 12/2013
Total budget: 5,522,240 €
of which public financing: 49,976 €
- from European sources:
- Procurement: €
- Grants: 49,976 €
- from national sources: €
- from local/regional sources: €
from other sources: 5,472,264 €
- donations: 4,660,170 €
- contributions from members: €
- Royalties : 412,294 €
- Investment income : 399,800 €
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 50000 € - 100000 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
Code of conduct
By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.
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