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Registered charity · London

Facing the World

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £742k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Kensington And Chelsea, Vietnam
Website
www.facingtheworld.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Facing the World
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£742k£773k
  • 2024£531k£589k
  • 2023£575k£588k
Earlier years
  • 2022£441k£392k
  • 2021£661k£787k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:-1. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, SICKNESS, INJURY AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR OF CHILDREN WITH FACIAL DEFORMITIES; AND 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE TREATMENT OF FACIAL DEFORMITIES IN ALL RESPECTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

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.

8 trustees on the board

7.2y median 6.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Disability 7Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 7

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£742k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.6 in 2021

3 from 2 in 2021
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
1092772
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON THE 30TH APRIL 2002.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 2017
Companies House
Company number 04427304 · Active
Contact on the register
0207 351 7832 · info@facingtheworld.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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