The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Forest Peoples Programme

Registered charity 1082158 Registered since 2000

Operates: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia

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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

4.6y median 4.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 11Business services 1Professional services 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£7.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.5 in 2020

56 from 42 in 2020
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.forestpeoples.org
Emailinfo@forestpeoples.org
Phone01608652893
Address1c Fosseway Business Centre, Stratford Road, Moreton in Marsh, GL56 9NQ

Finances

£9,560,643 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,283,156£3,776,191
2022£5,448,383£4,598,260
2023£8,236,620£6,898,712
2024£7,259,784£7,189,706
2025£9,560,643£7,381,240

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritageHuman Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL PEOPLES AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO DEPEND ON FORESTS FOR THEIR LIVELIHOODS BY ENABLING THEM TO PRESERVE, CONSERVE AND PROTECT THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF ITS RESOURCES, PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) AND BY THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THESE COMMUNITIES

Governing document: MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 OCTOBER 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 23 JUNE 2000 AND 10 MAY 2008 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION UPON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30 MAY 2008. as amended on 23 Dec 2023

Trustees (11)

11trustees
60median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Forest Peoples Programme · 03868836 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 29/10/1999

5 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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