Registered charity · London

Forward in Faith

11 trustees
Income £589k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Religious Activities
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website: www.forwardinfaith.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1996

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£589k£481k
2024£371k£345k
2023£278k£358k

Earlier years

2022£278k£314k
2021£224k£274k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ORGANISATION IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY PROMOTING THE SPREAD OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRADITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORIC APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE MINISTRY OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS AND FULL ECCLESIAL COMMUNION

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

Rt Rev Paul Thomas Chair since 2023
Christopher Roy Daubney since 2023
Christopher Swift since 2023
Fr Mark North SSC since 2023
Mary Snape since 2023
Rev Daniel Thomas Howard since 2024
Rev Kyle Gillies Mcneil since 2023
Rev Paul Hutchins since 2023
Rev Paul John Benfield since 2015
Rt Rev Luke Thomas Irvine-Capel since 2026
Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL since 2015

4.1y median 3y

average tenure

11y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Rev Paul John Benfield since 2015
Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL since 2015

6.8y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Rt Rev Paul Thomas Chair since 2023
Christopher Swift since 2023
Mary Snape since 2023
Rev Daniel Thomas Howard since 2024
Rev Paul John Benfield since 2015
Rt Rev Luke Thomas Irvine-Capel since 2026

Portfolio (5)

Christopher Roy Daubney since 2023
Fr Mark North SSC since 2023
Rev Kyle Gillies Mcneil since 2023
Rev Paul Hutchins since 2023
Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL since 2015

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 11Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 4Arts and leisure 3Hospitality 2

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.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£589k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

26.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1057246
Status: Registered
Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 25/06/1996AS AMENDED ON 20/10/2007AS AMENDED ON 19/10/2013AS AMENDED ON 14/11/2015
Contact on the register: 02073883588 · admin.assistant@forwardinfaith.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th 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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