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Registered charity · London

Thinkforward (UK)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)

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

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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Kent, Nottinghamshire, Throughout London
Website
www.thinkforward.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Thinkforward (UK)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.8m
  • 2024£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.6m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£2.2m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.4m
Charitable objects

TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADVANCE THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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

1.9y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
4.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 9Education/training 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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 25Business services 8Professional services 8

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£2.4m latest income
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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.5 in 2021

46 from 47 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.
5%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1152862
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/06/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/07/2013 as amended on 16 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 08318590 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 102 4475 · info@thinkforward.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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