FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME

Registered charity 1082158 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5469075 · Wikipedia · also known as FOREST PEOPLES PROJECT, FPP

To support indigenous and tribal forest peoples to promote their collective and individual rights, secure their lands and manage thier natural resources to build their capacity to carry out actions for the long-term relief of poverty and to educate policy makers and civil society about their concerns and aspirations.

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

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £2.18m for the year, with total income rising to £9.56m against total expenditure of £7.29m. Unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £6.03m, well above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £1.03m (four months of operating costs). The trustees confirmed the charity can continue as a going concern, although they noted that even pessimistic scenarios would result in operation at a lower capacity.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Programme Assistant (Remote) 2026 at Forest Peoples Programme | International NGO Career Opportunity globalsouthopportunities.com · 13/02/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Forest Peoples Programme (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Robertschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Aslak Holmberg
• Carol Kalafatic
• Dr MICHEL PIMBERT
• Kevin Currey
• Maria Josee Artist
• Patricia Borraz Fernandez
• Richard Williams
• Robeliza Halip

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Bangladesh · Brazil · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Colombia · Congo · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Costa Rica · Guyana · Indonesia · Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PROFOREST INITIATIVE.

• THE PROFOREST INITIATIVE income £2.6m
• NEW FOREST TRUST income £84k
• MERSEY FOREST FOUNDATION income £124k
• FOREST SCHOOL CAMPS income £471k
• THE FOREST HERMITAGE TRUST income £103k
• FOREST HILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £490k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.