Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

FORUM FOR THE FUTURE 

Forum for the Future works in partnership with leading organisations in business and the public sector. Our vision is of business and communities thriving in a future that is environmentally sustainable and socially just. We inspire and challenge organisations with positive visions of a sustainable future; deliver practical ways to realise those visions; and train leaders to bring about change.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 30 years

www.forumforthefuture.org

info@forumforthefuture.org

+44 20 3744 8650

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£6,375£6,418£-43£206£1,954£9031.7730
31/12/21£5,127£5,385£-258£290£1,991£1,1172.5760
31/12/20£5,809£5,390£419£195£2,264£9352.1792
31/12/19£5,986£5,423£563£168£1,903£8591.97112
31/12/18£5,327£5,269£58£99£1,376£7201.66510
31/12/17£5,266£5,100£166£41£1,318£5001.2650
31/12/16£5,193£5,238£-44£7£1,152£6041.4830
31/12/15*£4,981£4,836£145£44£1,127£9672.4690
31/12/14£4,542£4,429£113£30£917£7792.1660
31/12/13£4,483£4,843£-359£31£804£7261.8630
31/12/12£4,791£4,477£313£37£1,163£6091.6620
31/12/11£3,860£3,950£-90£63£850£8192.5600
31/12/10£4,217£3,998£219£112£940£7752.3630
31/12/09£4,379£4,070£309£138£721£5371.6610
31/12/08£4,475£4,691£-216£114£412£2290.6740
31/12/07£4,826£4,497£329£74£1,361£9012.4780
31/12/06£4,038£4,091£-53£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£3,570£3,641£-71£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£3,834£3,567£267£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 28%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 40%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 1.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • India, Singapore, Throughout England, United States,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 73 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Lankelly Chase Foundation£270,000
John Ellerman Foundation£200,000
Friends Provident Foundation£192,500
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£120,000
Co-Op Foundation£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - Forum for the Future CIF project
£100,000 17/05/2022
Cross-sector collaboration demonstrating how farmers in mainstream food retail value chains can adopt regenerative farming and enabling wider UK food/farming system change.
John Ellerman Foundation - 90% against project costs as outlined in application; 10% of the grant towards core funding
£100,000 31/03/2022
90% against project costs as outlined in application; 10% of the grant towards core funding
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Family LT- February 2022
£10,000 02/02/2022
While this grant is unrestricted, the key organisational aims it will enable include priorities such as: 1) Organisational leadership and development Implementation of Forum's 2022-2025 strategy is ....more
Friends Provident Foundation - Forum for the Future Promising Approaches - Power Paired
£2,500 01/02/2022
Promising Approaches funding in support of taking the Power Paired resource other parts of the UK - particularly allowing translation work for Wales.
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Core Funding - June 2021
£5,000 02/06/2021
Core funding
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future, The
£40,000 31/03/2021
Forum for the Future, The
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - Forum for the Future
£30,000 18/03/2021
Support for the Marine CoLABoration (CoLAB) to deliver two inter-linked programmes of work: 1) drive progress on joined-up ocean and climate action in 2021;and 2) embed effective communication and ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future, The
£30,000 14/01/2021
Forum for the Future, The
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future
£120,000 28/11/2020
24
Local Just Transition Challenge
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future, The
£200,000 13/10/2020
Forum for the Future, The
Friends Provident Foundation - The Forum for the Future-Local fair transition challenge
£190,000 09/06/2020
Achieving net-zero by 2050 means the end of fossil fuel power stations, internal combustion engine factories & gas boilers. As plants close/are repurposed, people & communities risk being ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Scale Lab project on regenerative agriculture
£100,000 25/07/2019
24
Towards the costs of a 'Scale Lab', to develop networks of retailers, farmers, producers and landowners who adopt farming practices which restore and enhance soil health.
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Forum for the Future
£15,000 02/07/2019
Core funding to invest time, resource and expertise into developing initiatives.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Forum for the Future
£8,000 09/01/2019
To contribute towards the support for the coordination and development of the Mariine CoLABoration in 2019.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future
£125,000 17/09/2018
To run the Secretariat for the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - School of System Change
£300,000 23/04/2018
24
2 year development funding for the School of Systems Change
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forum for the Future
£20,000 27/02/2018
8
Towards a programme, delivered in partnership with youth organisations, to empowers young people under-represented in decision-making to be part of the Civil Society Futures Inquiry.
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future
£125,000 13/12/2017
To run the Secretariat function for the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.
Mark Leonard Trust - Catalyst fund
£20,000 07/11/2017
Towards a catalyst fund for capacity to develop new initiatives to tackle significant challenges on sustainability.
Power to Change - Forum for the Future
£93,000 20/10/2017
9
Grant to Forum for the Future
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future
£125,000 26/06/2017
To run the Secretariat function for the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.
Mark Leonard Trust - create a coalition of companies
£5,000 09/05/2017
Towards a pilot project to create a coalition of public companies committing to transition their pension funds to low carbon or fossil free portfolios, now being taken forward by ShareAction
J J Charitable Trust - create a coalition of companies
£10,000 09/05/2017
Towards a pilot project to create a coalition of public companies committing to transition their pension funds to low carbon or fossil free portfolios, now being taken forward by ShareAction
Friends Provident Foundation - Forum for the Future - The UK Community Energy Asset Bank
£180,000 14/03/2017
We will conduct the R&D required to create and launch a new online 'Community Energy Asset Bank' (CEAB) where asset owners enter details of land and buildings, a team curates the bank, and ....more
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Forum for the Future
£5,000 12/02/2017
Forum for the Future: To commission a team participating in the School of System Change training to focus their research on an ocean conservation challenge.
Nesta - AC00586
£102,218 10/01/2017
7
Aquaculture Prize Design programme grant to Forum for the future Grant Ref AC00586
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Forum for the Future
£20,000 21/12/2016
To support participation in the Marine CoLABoration in phase two of the initiative (2017-2018).
Friends Provident Foundation - Forum for the Future - Wise Minds
£24,480 13/12/2016
Forum for the Future is proposing to work with Friends Provident Foundation to convene their Wisdom and Insight for Sustainable Energy - 'WISE minds' - in a series of dinners through the autumn and ....more
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Forum for the Future
£125,000 12/12/2016
To run the Secretariat function for the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Forum for the Future
£22,500 02/06/2016
To provide support for the coordination and development of the Marine CoLABoration over the next two years
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - The Forum for the Future
£22,500 02/06/2016
To provide support for the coordination and development of the Marine CoLABoration over the next two years
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to The Forum for the Future
£20,000 10/05/2016
8
To develop a platform which shares existing and ground-breaking systems change thinking; and to transfer knowledge and tools to organisations working with people facing severe and multiple ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forum for the Future
£240,000 11/04/2013
Towards core costs to bring about change in the energy system, increasing the number of communities collectively owning and generating their own energy.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forum for the Future
£240,000 12/06/2008
36
Towards Project costs Towards core staff and overhead costs of the sustainable Bristol region project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-65
  • DEEPA IYER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Independent Advisor
  • NOA GAFNI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Founder
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/08/1994, number: 1040519
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/08/1994, number: 02959712
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR15: 1 days late,
Main office

22-26 Paul Street
3rd Floor
London
EC2A 4QE

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES AS THEY RELATE TO INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, SOCIETY AT LARGE AND THE PLANET AS A WHOLE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR INTER-RELATIONSHIP WITH ECOLOGY, THE NATURAL WORLD, HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGYTO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:-1) THE PRESERVATION CONVERSATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES;2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; AND3) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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