BRITISH FUTURE

Registered charity 1159291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4969997 · Wikipedia

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR IN THE SUBJECTS OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, RACIAL AND CULTURAL HARMONY, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR IN THE SUBJECTS OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, RACIAL AND CULTURAL HARMONY, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION.IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS THE CHARITY MAY CARRY OUT AND PROMOTE RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, IN PARTICULAR COMPRISING INFORMATION LEADING TO THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MATTERS SET OUT IN THE OBJECTS

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity sustained a small deficit of £7,408 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £76,222. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves were £33,841, which is below the stated policy target of £125,000, but they expect reserves to exceed this target by the next year-end. The auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

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
• 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

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 07660799

Funders the charity credits

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

• Barrow Cadbury Trust — “Over £50,000 Barrow Cadbury Trust;” (source page)
• Universities UK — “£10,000 - £50,000 Universities UK;” (source page)
• Lloyds Bank Foundation — “Under £10,000 Lloyds Bank Foundation” (source page)
• The Oak Foundation — “Since our foundation in 2012, British Future is also grateful for having received funding or in-kind support from: The Oak Foundation;” (source page)

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.

• BULAT, Alexandra — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
• VERNON, Patrick Philip — director, appointed 30/05/2025not on trustee list
• JACOBS, Sam — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
• GREIG, Ed — director, appointed 07/03/2019on trustee list
• DUFFY, Robert — director, appointed 07/03/2019on trustee list
• SOLANKI, Shailesh Ramniklal — director, appointed 10/11/2016on trustee list
• ASIM, Qari Muhammad — director, appointed 10/12/2015not on trustee list
• ALS, Andrea Sharon — director, appointed 09/09/2015on trustee list
• MURRAY, Alasdair James — director, appointed 08/07/2011on trustee list
• SARAN, Sarah Ayesha — director, appointed 07/06/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 13.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALASDAIR MURRAYchair
• Alexandra Bulat
• Andrea Als
• Ed Greig
• Patrick Philip Vernon OBE
• Qari Muhammad Asim MBE
• Robert Duffy
• SARAH AYESHA SARAN
• Sam Jacobs
• Shailesh Ramniklal Solanki · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE.

• BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE income £30k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• CLARION FUTURES income £17.2m
• FUTURE income £268k
• OUR FUTURE HEALTH income £97.9m
• THE BIRMINGHAM SETTLEMENT income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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