THINKFORWARD (UK)

Registered charity 1152862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THINKFORWARD

ThinkForward is a breakthrough programme which intervenes early to ensure that disengaged young people make a successful transition from education into employment. ThinkForward works with schools to identify young people entering their GCSE years who are most at risk of being unemployed when they leave school, and commits to supporting them for five years through their transition into employment.

Objects

TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADVANCE THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Area of benefit: TOWER HAMLETSHACKNEYISLINGTON

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £0.40m for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £0.81m. Unrestricted reserves stood at £0.70m, which the trustees state is within their policy target of three to five months' operating expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08318590

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ThinkForward (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• COCKELL WHITEHEAD, Ryan Daniel — director, appointed 23/04/2026not on trustee list
• BAILEY, Adam Christopher — director, appointed 26/12/2025on trustee list
• FAUVEL, Laura — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• VAGANAY, Arnaud — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Simon Russell — director, appointed 30/10/2025on trustee list
• PATEL, Roxanna — director, appointed 01/03/2024on trustee list
• TATE, Matthew — director, appointed 12/10/2021on trustee list
• EASTERBROOK, Daniel — director, appointed 10/11/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 8.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Tatechair
• Arnaud Vaganay
• DANIEL EASTERBROOK
• Laura Fauvel
• Ryan Daniel Cockell Whitehead
• Simon Davidson

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

Operates in: Kent · Nottinghamshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION.

• DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• THINK EQUAL income £426k
• BOUNCE FORWARD income £109k
• EDUCATION & EMPLOYERS TASKFORCE income £1.2m
• WAVE FORWARD income £45k
• The Key-UK income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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