STOP THE TRAFFIK

Registered charity 1127321 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEDOM TICKET FOR LIFE, START FREEDOM

STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global movement which exists to build resilient communities to disrupt and prevent human trafficking: We equip people to understand what trafficking is, how it affects them and what they can do about it. We equip consumers to campaign, & business to take action, to prevent trafficking. We gather and analyse information on how and where trafficking is taking place.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £6,902 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £1,193,355. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £429,643 are above the stated policy target of approximately £330,000, representing three months of running costs. The auditors 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 Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06657145

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — STOP THE TRAFFIK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation — “Funding from charitable trusts and foundations is vitally important to STOP THE TRAFFIK, enabling us to build communities resilient to human…” (source page)

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.

• BRIGHT, David Francis — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Elaine — director, appointed 15/12/2020on trustee list
• PATTERSON, John Robert — director, appointed 15/12/2020on trustee list
• LAWLOR, Geraldine Mary — director, appointed 15/09/2020on trustee list
• TALIBART, Peter Lawrence — director, appointed 12/03/2019on trustee list
• PRICE, Stuart John — director, appointed 12/03/2019not on trustee list
• RYAN, Matthew James — director, appointed 12/03/2019on trustee list
• MURRAY, Xenia Margaret Thackeray — secretary, appointed 21/03/2023

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geraldine Mary Lawlorchair
• DAVID FRANCIS BRIGHT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elaine Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Patterson
• Matthew James Ryan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Lawrence Talibart
• Stuart Rennison-Price

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 TRAFFIKANALYSIS HUB LTD.

• TRAFFIKANALYSIS HUB LTD income £153k
• HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUNDATION income £250k
• MEDAILLE TRUST income £6.0m
• Mary Ward Loreto UK income £130k
• BRAKE income £2.3m
• TRAFFIC INTERNATIONAL income £12.0m

Side by side with its peers

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