THE FRONTLINE CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1111898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1470279 · Wikipedia

To advance, for the benefit of the public, education of journalists, media decision-makers, educators and other persons interested in matters of public concern.To promote free, accurate and responsible media coverage anywhere in the world. To train in the safety and health of jounalists and other personnel exposed to danger as a result of media activities in areas of conflict.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EDUCATION OF JOURNALISTS, MEDIA DECISION-MAKERS, EDUCATORS AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS IN MATTERS OF PUBLIC CONCERN, SUCH AS EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT INSTRUMENTS) AND INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, BY PROMOTING:3.1 FREE, ACCURATE AND RESPONSIBLE MEDIA COVERAGE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD; AND3.2 TRAINING IN THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF JOURNALISTS AND OTHER PERSONNEL EXPOSED TO DANGERAS A RESULT OF MEDIA ACTIVITY IN AREAS OF CONFLICT.

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with net liabilities of £229,296 and unrestricted reserves in deficit. The independent examiner identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to the financial position, although the trustees remain confident in securing future funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 24/04/2025, 83 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/03/2025, 408 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 15/01/2024, 349 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 18/11/2023, 656 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Open Society Foundations — “This project is currently supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ Program on Independent Journalism.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Michael Knight
• Joanne Lin Weir
• Susan Phillips
• Tira Shubart · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Albania · Bosnia And Herzegovina · City Of London · City Of Westminster · Czech Republic · Georgia · Hungary · Kosovo · Mexico · Moldova · Poland · Romania

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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k
• THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP income £2.0m
• FRONTLINE TRUST income £567k
• THE FRONTLINE ORGANISATION income £23.5m
• THE FENCE CLUB TRUST FUND income £192k
• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k

Side by side with its peers

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