Registered charity · London
Forum for the Future
- 9 trustees
- Income £6.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Rita Clifton CBEChair · since 2020
- Bruce MccombieTrustee · since 2025
- Charlotte Ersboll ChristofersenTrustee · since 2019
- Deepa IyerTrustee · since 2023
- Deepak SubramanianTrustee · since 2023
- Emily Jane BushbyTrustee · since 2022
- Emily Kathryn GibsonTrustee · since 2025
- Jonathan Giles Macartney WatesTrustee · since 2019
- Laura McgonigalTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England, India, Singapore, United States
- Website
- www.forumforthefuture.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Forum for the Future
- Registered
- 1994
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£6.9m£5.6m
- 2024£6.6m£6.6m
- 2023£6.9m£6.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£6.4m£6.4m
- 2021£5.1m£5.4m
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES AS THEY RELATE TO INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, SOCIETY AT LARGE AND THE PLANET AS A WHOLE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR INTER-RELATIONSHIP WITH ECOLOGY, THE NATURAL WORLD, HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGYTO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:-1) THE PRESERVATION CONVERSATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES;2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; AND3) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Rita Clifton CBE Chair since 2020
- Bruce Mccombie since 2025
- Charlotte Ersboll Christofersen since 2019
- Deepa Iyer since 2023
- Deepak Subramanian since 2023
- Emily Jane Bushby since 2022
- Emily Kathryn Gibson since 2025
- Jonathan Giles Macartney Wates since 2019
- Laura Mcgonigal since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Charlotte Ersboll Christofersen since 2019
- Jonathan Giles Macartney Wates since 2019
- Laura Mcgonigal since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Bruce Mccombie since 2025
- Charlotte Ersboll Christofersen since 2019
- Deepa Iyer since 2023
- Deepak Subramanian since 2023
- Emily Jane Bushby since 2022
- Emily Kathryn Gibson since 2025
- Jonathan Giles Macartney Wates since 2019
- Laura Mcgonigal since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Rita Clifton CBE Chair since 2020
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
0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.1 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1040519
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/08/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/2004NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/04/2013 as amended on 29 Oct 2021 as amended on 06 Dec 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 02959712 · Active
- Contact on the register
- +44 20 3744 8650 · info@forumforthefuture.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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