THE FREEDOM FUND UK

Registered charity 1158838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471657 · 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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:1) THE REDUCTION AND ERADICATION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ALL ITS FORMS, INCLUDING THE ADOPTION OF MEANS BY WHICH TO COMBAT MODERN SLAVERY;2) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SUFFERING OF THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND OTHER MODERN FORMS OF SLAVERY BY PROVIDING MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES TO SUCH PERSONS;3) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER HARDSHIP OF THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND OTHER MODERN FORMS OF SLAVERY;4) THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND5) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CAUSES, MANIFESTATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND OTHER MODERN FORMS OF SLAVERY AND THE PROVISION OF RELATED ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO GOVERNMENT BODIES, POLICE FORCES, BORDER AND IMMIGRATION AGENCIES AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ORGANISATIONS.

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 · 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 reported a net surplus of $700,210 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of $762,222. The trustees consider these reserves to be sufficient and above their stated policy target of $25,000 to $50,000. The financial statements 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

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.

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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 (5.3%) (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

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Known funders

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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 DANIEL FREEDMAN FOUNDATION income £113k
• FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS UK income £4.0m
• THE FAIRNESS FOUNDATION income £242k
• FREEDOM CENTRE income £122k
• FOUNTAIN OF PEACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION UK income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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