FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS UK

Registered charity 1151043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Securing the most basic freedoms for people requires frontline activists challenging injustice and building on-the-ground demand for change. The Fund for Global Human Rights UK helps human rights defenders get the funding needed to sustain and strengthen their work. The overall goal is to improve justice, accountability and equality and to ensure that gains are sustainable over the long term.

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a strong balance sheet, holding £2,018,342 in cash and unrestricted reserves of £1,671,180. This reserve level is significantly above the Board's designated policy target of £693,500, providing a buffer against income fluctuations. The charity reported an in-year surplus of £1,593,083, reversing a deficit from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £230,001 - £240,000 (FY2024) to £230,000 - £239,999 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gabriela Bucher — President and CEO (source)
• Kalvinder Dhillon — Chair (source)
• Tracey Deal — Vice President of Global Operations (source)
• David Mattingly — Vice President for Programs (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 9.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kalvinder Dhillonchair
• Anish Malhotra
• Thomas Ashley Steinberg

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

Operates in: Algeria · Burma · Burundi · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Egypt · Guatemala · Guinea · Honduras · India · Kenya · Lambeth · Liberia

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 Human Rights Protection Fund.

• Human Rights Protection Fund income £441k
• JUSTICE FOR JOURNALISTS FOUNDATION income £245k
• MEDIA LEGAL DEFENCE INITIATIVE income £3.0m
• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY income £5.7m
• THE INJUSTICE FOUNDATION income £609k
• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

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