FRAUD ADVISORY PANEL

Registered charity 1108863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advising governments, charities, public authorities, professionals, businesses, and individuals on the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and deterrence of fraud through education, training and other awareness-raising activities, research into the nature, extent and causes of fraud, and public policy.

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECT IS THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY BY THE PREVENTION, DETECTION, INVESTIGATION, PROSECUTION AND DETERRENCE OF FRAUD, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF:- 3.1 RESEARCH INTO THE NATURE, EXTENT AND CAUSES OF FRAUD AND INTO THE MEANS, SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES OF PREVENTING, DETECTING, INVESTIGATING, PROSECUTING AND DETERRING THE SAME, MAKING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC; 3.2 EDUCATION OF THOSE ACTUALLY OR POTENTIALLY AFFECTED BY FRAUD CONCERNING THE FOREGOING AND IN RELATION TO REGULATORY AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE SAME; AND 3.3 COLLABORATION WITH AND ADVICE TO GOVERNMENTS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER BODIES, COMPANIES, FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENERAL SYSTEMS, STANDARDS, POLICIES, REGULATIONS AND LAWS WITH A VIEW TO THE PREVENTION, DETECTION, INVESTIGATION, PROSECUTION AND DETERRENCE OF FRAUD; AND TO FURTHER THE ABOVE OBJECT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £99,928 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds of £276,262. Per the trustees' report, these reserves equate to seven months of average operating costs, which falls within the stated policy target of six to nine months. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~31.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir David John Mark Greenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arun Kumar Singh Chauhan
• Brendan Weekes
• David John Steven Bacon
• FRANCES COULSON
• John Adrian Anderson
• Jonathan Raymond MacAulay Holmes
• Laura Hough
• Liyun Adrienne Fitzgerald
• Louis Coiffait-Gunn
• Maria Cronin
• OLIVER JOHN SHAW
• Patrick James Rappo
• Professor Michael Levi
• Rachel Sexton

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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