FREEDOM NETWORK INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1122937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DALIT FREEDOM NETWORK UK, DFN UK, DIGNITY FREEDOM NETWORK, FREEDOM NETWORK SOUTH ASIA, FREEDOM NETWORK UK

(1) Raising the awareness of human rights and justice issues by educating the public and lobbying Government and other agencies.(2) Supporting a other issues where justice and human rights issues are involved.(3) The promotion and support of projects involved with the care, upbringing and establishment in life of young people.

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RELEVANT LEGAL JURISDICTION(S);3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND TO CULTIVATE A PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF HUMAN RIGHTS;3.3 TO PROMOTE RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND INFORMATION TO PROMOTE BETTER AWARENESS OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF A WORLD WHERE RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY DO NOT EXIST;3.4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION3.5 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, PARTICULARLY AMONGST VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER, PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS OR EQUIPMENT TO INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS WHO ARE THEMSELVES OR WORK WITH THOSE IN NEED.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year exceeded £540,000, derived from various sources including individuals, trusts, and businesses. The filing notes that competition for funding is increasing and that full audited accounts are provisional and not yet available. No specific reserves policy or unrestricted reserves figure is disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06256996

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HARCOURT, Rebecca Dawn — director, appointed 07/03/2024on trustee list
• D'SOUZA, Josh Lawrence — director, appointed 24/03/2022on trustee list
• RAI, Santosh Kumari — director, appointed 04/12/2015on trustee list
• SWAMY, Kumar — director, appointed 12/11/2009on trustee list
• YOUNG, Martin James — director, appointed 07/10/2009on trustee list
• SLOAN, Gary Raymond — director, appointed 23/05/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Raymond Sloanchair
• Josh Lawrence D'Souza
• KUMAR SWAMY
• MARTIN YOUNG
• Rebecca Dawn Harcourt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Santosh Kumari Rai

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

Operates in: India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY.

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY income £5.7m
• The Social Justice Network income £346k
• FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS UK income £4.0m
• RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK income £449k
• FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL NOW LTD income £75k
• INTERMEDIARIES FOR JUSTICE income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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