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Registered charity · London

Forward Thinking

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £966k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Egypt, Finland, Israel and more
Website
www.forward-thinking.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£966k£698k
  • 2024£737k£601k
  • 2023£573k£702k
Earlier years
  • 2022£623k£815k
  • 2021£563k£604k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES MUST APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN FURTHERING THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") TO PROMOTE RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING MORE INFORMED DIALOGUE AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT FACTIONS WITHIN SAME FAITH COMMUNITIES AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT FAITH AND RACIAL GROUPS.

Grants received

8 grants · £430,000 total

360Giving 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

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.

5y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance
1
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 10Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Finance 7Professional services 4Education 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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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£966k 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.

7.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.8 in 2021

5 from 10 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
1105206
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 21 JULY 2004
Contact on the register
02080641396 · admin@forward-thinking.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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