THE NATIONAL FLOOD FORUM

Registered charity 1121642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6972704 · Wikipedia

Rapid deployment of post recovery advice to flooding communities, individuals and businessesA designated help line that provides support, empathy and a listening earHelp and advice to resolve issues regarding restoration of property, insurance etc.A website containing a wealth of detailed informationAdvice on flood resilience and resistanceProactively helping to form action groups

Objects

3.1 THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR WHERE LIFE AND PROPERTY IS AFFECTED BY OR AT RISK OF BEING AFFECTED BY FLOODING ON A SIGNIFICANT SCALE BY:3.1.1 WORKING EITHER ALONE OR WITH BUSINESSES OR OTHER STRATEGIC ORGANISATIONS, WHETHER PRIVATE, VOLUNTARY, PUBLIC OR STATUTORY, TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FLOODING, TO MINIMISE THE MATERIAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY AND THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FLOODING AND TO ASSIST IN RECOVERY FROM THE EFFECTS OF FLOODING3.1.2 PROVIDING, OR ASSISTING WITH, PROMOTING OR IMPROVING ACCESS TO EDUCATION OR TRAINING WITH A VIEW TO REDUCING THE RISK OF FLOODING, MINIMISING THE MATERIAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY AND THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FLOODING AND TO ASSIST IN RECOVERY FROM THE EFFECTS OF FLOODING.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wyre Forest, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £694,788 are held, which is in excess of the trustees' policy target of 3-6 months of core activity costs. The charity reports a surplus for the year and confirms confidence in its future viability for at least 12 months, although it notes that funding remains the biggest risk and budgets for a deficit in the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 6 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The National Flood Forum (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Goffchair
• Cherry Ann Wells
• Craig Hamilton Woolhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel James Martin
• Dr Sally Priest
• Lynne Jones
• Robert Haddon
• Stuart Logue
• TERENCE WILLIAM FULLER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORNWALL COMMUNITY FLOOD FORUM.

• CORNWALL COMMUNITY FLOOD FORUM income £114k
• THE HONORARY TREASURERS FORUM income £39k
• FLOWW income £189k
• NORFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £2.8m
• GROUNDWATER RELIEF income £1.4m
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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