FORWARD ASSIST LIMITED

Registered charity 1150408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing ex service personnel from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH OR THEIR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE THE CHARITY WILL:ENSURE THAT ANY FORMER MEMBER OF HER MAJESTIES ARMED FORCES CAN ACCESS SPECIALIST INFORMATION ADVICE AND GUIDANCE AND HOLISTIC SUPPORT TO REDUCE THE PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL OR SOCIAL HARM EXPERIENCED BY INDIVIDUALS AS A RESULT OF MILITARY SERVICE AND THEIR ASSIMILATION BACK INTO THE CIVILIAN COMMUNITY.PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING EX SERVICE PERSONNEL FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF EX SERVICE PERSONNEL BOTH [SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY] SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN UK IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, ANDHELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETYPROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

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: North Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £49,465 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £81,504 to £32,039. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £3,289 are below the stated policy target of three months of operating expenditure, though the trustees remain positive about future income. The charity relies on an independent examiner's report rather than a full audit.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 08/07/2022, 8 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08190905 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• WALKER, Sally Jane — director, appointed 07/11/2025on trustee list
• HONOR, Stuart Richard — director, appointed 28/07/2022on trustee list
• HEGARTY, Brian James — director, appointed 07/11/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Hegarty
• Ian James Cavanagh
• Sally Walker
• Stuart Honor

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FORWARD TRUST.

• THE FORWARD TRUST income £44.4m
• THE INFRARED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £85k
• FRIEND IN DEED income £89k
• AFTERMATH SUPPORT LIMITED income £138k
• FOREFRONT COMMUNITY CHURCH income £136k
• AUTISM FORWARD CIO income £98k

Side by side with its peers

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