THE FREEDOM FUND UK

Registered charity 1158838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FF-UK

THE FREEDOM FUND IS A PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE DESIGNED TO BRING MUCH-NEEDED STRATEGIC FOCUS AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO THE FIGHT AGAINST MODERN SLAVERY. WITH AN EXPERT TEAM AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, THE FREEDOM FUND IDENTIFIES AND INVESTS IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE FRONTLINE EFFORTS TO END SLAVERY IN THE COUNTRIES AND SECTORS WHERE IT IS MOST PREVALENT.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of $28,568 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of $62,012. The trustees consider these reserves sufficient given the support available from the parent entity, Freedom Fund (US), which covers staff and other costs incurred in the UK.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2025-2026)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Havovi Wadia — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Nick Grono — CEO (source)
• Molly Gochman — Board Chair (source)
• Andrew Doust — Vice Chair (source)
• Mahendra Pandey — Vice Chair (source)
• Shruti Chandrasekhar — Treasurer (source)
• Hannah de Ville — Interim Director of Programs (source)
• Jenny Jones — Managing Director of Finance and Operations (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Doust
• Asif Shaikh
• Daniel Elkes
• Joseph Boateng
• Katharine Bryant
• MICHELLE YUE
• Mahendra Pandey
• Molly Sarah Gochman
• Shruti Chandrasekhar

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

Operates in: India · Nepal · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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 TRIBE FREEDOM FOUNDATION.

• TRIBE FREEDOM FOUNDATION income £218k
• THE CLEWER INITIATIVE income £347k
• ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL income £3.7m
• HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUNDATION income £250k
• TRUE FREEDOM TRUST income £178k
• HOPE FOR JUSTICE income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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