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Registered charity 1158683 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30325238 · Wikipedia

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Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit:(1) to advance public education in the fields of crime, health, immigration, economy, education, environment and social welfare, through education, research and training, to promote and advance public understanding and inform public debate in those fields and in particular by making available to the public, through a process of objective, impartial research and rigorous factual analysis, full, accurate and relevant information to assist such public understanding and to inform and improve the quality of public debate(2) to promote citizenship and civic responsibility including by encouraging and facilitating informed participation and engagement by members of the public in their communities, promoting high standards of informed public debate and the provision of Public Interest Content by exclusively charitable means(3) to advance health and in particular to minimise the damage to people’s health caused by inaccurate or unreliable information“Public Interest Content” means news and other information, which is generated, checked, confirmed, corrected as necessary and disseminated to the public online or by other means according to high standards of ethical conduct and best practice in journalism and which provides one or more of the following benefits to the public:• informs members of the public about matters of relevance to their role and responsibilities as citizens;• enables members of local communities to become aware of and understand matters of common concern to them as members of their community and which promotes their involvement and cooperation in such matters and community cohesion accordingly;• enables members of the public to participate in an informed manner in relevant democratic processes and, as a result, supports the legitimacy of the democratic process as a whole;• benefits the public by promoting charitable educational outcomes, such as improving public understanding of health and medical matters or the conservation of the environmentSuch purposes shall in all respects and at all times be construed and promoted:(i) in an impartial, objective, balanced and independent manner observing strict political neutrality; and(ii) exclusively for the benefit of the public and in accordance with the law relating to charity in England and Wales.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £229,464 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £994,382. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is above the stated policy target of maintaining between 4 and 6 months of running costs, although free reserves are noted as being below the policy minimum. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, citing secured income for 2026 and diversification efforts despite recent redundancies and lost funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (FY2024) → 9 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Morris — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Hosting UK — “Thanks to Hosting UK for donating our web hosting.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Frances Walkerchair
• Anand Menon
• Anna Cook
• Antonia Mary Cox
• Baroness Janet Royall
• Claire Wardle
• Dr Claire Helen Melamed · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Paul Harding
• LORD INGLEWOOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tim Gordon

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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.

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 YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.

• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• THE GB TRUST income £57k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• GAMLEARN income £310k
• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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