Registered charity · London
Forward Arts Foundation
- 11 trustees
- Income £394k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Amelia Kate RichardsTrustee · since 2021
- Aoife O'ConnorTrustee · since 2021
- Hannah SouthallTrustee · since 2025
- Latinka PilipovicTrustee · since 2023
- Lucy Howard-TaylorTrustee · since 2025
- Mary AmanuelTrustee · since 2021
- Maya Evadne OpheliaTrustee · since 2021
- Nichola ShoreTrustee · since 2025
- Sally Carruthers YeomansTrustee · since 2025
- Steven AbbottTrustee · since 2025
- William Matthew SieghartTrustee · since 1993
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.forwardartsfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Forward Arts Foundation
- Registered
- 1994
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£394k£383k
- 2024£258k£263k
- 2023£243k£223k
Earlier years
- 2022£302k£323k
- 2021£276k£286k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION OF LITERARY WORKS ESPECIALLY CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Grants received
6 grants · £288,796 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- John Ellerman Foundation · £165,000 (2 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £55,000 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £48,796
- CHK Foundation · £20,000
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
11 trustees on the board
- Amelia Kate Richards since 2021
- Aoife O'Connor since 2021
- Hannah Southall since 2025
- Latinka Pilipovic since 2023
- Lucy Howard-Taylor since 2025
- Mary Amanuel since 2021
- Maya Evadne Ophelia since 2021
- Nichola Shore since 2025
- Sally Carruthers Yeomans since 2025
- Steven Abbott since 2025
- William Matthew Sieghart since 1993
Trustees past 6 years
- William Matthew Sieghart since 1993
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Amelia Kate Richards since 2021
- Aoife O'Connor since 2021
- Hannah Southall since 2025
- Lucy Howard-Taylor since 2025
- Mary Amanuel since 2021
- Maya Evadne Ophelia since 2021
- Nichola Shore since 2025
- Sally Carruthers Yeomans since 2025
- Steven Abbott since 2025
- William Matthew Sieghart since 1993
Portfolio (1)
- Latinka Pilipovic since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1037939
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28TH FEBRUARY 1994 as amended on 24 Apr 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 02902864 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02081879861 · info@forwardartsfoundation.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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