FORWARD THINKING

Registered charity 1105206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5473254 · Wikipedia

An independent and non-denominational charity, addresses the social isolation of Muslim communities in Britain. Over the past year, the Middle East Programme has sought to engage in and promote an inclusive dialogue with a variety of Israeli and Palestinian actors, as well as with opinion-shapers and key figures in neighbouring and EU countries.

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.

Area of benefit: 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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £451,655, maintaining a level equivalent to between three and six months of expenditure as per the charity's reserves policy. The charity reported a net income surplus of £268,161 for the year, with total income of £966,339 against charitable expenditure of £698,178. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue operations on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Forward Thinking (matched by registered charity number).

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: Mr Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £2k · 21/09/2018 · New York · ref V0400121
  To attend a conference of the Helsinki dialogue process in the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM MATTHEW TIMOTHY SIEGHARTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Paul Bake
• Dympna May
• Francis Campbell
• Jeremy Quentin Greenstock
• Laurence Justin Dowley · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL HOLLAND · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR CHRIS DONNELLY
• Professor Cav. Simon David Mordant AO
• Samuel George William Holland

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

Operates in: Egypt · Finland · Israel · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout England And Wales · Tunisia · Turkey

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE DAWAH PROJECT income £608k
• Muslim Association for Spirituality and Engagement income £45k
• FORWARD ASSIST LIMITED income £52k
• FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF AND RECONCILIATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST income £627k
• ISLAMBRADFORD income £111k
• WEST LONDON ISLAMIC CENTRE income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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