FUTURE FRONTIERS

Registered charity 1162470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Future Frontiers is an education charity working towards a day when every child is inspired to fulfil their potential atschool & beyond. Our award-winning programme combines face-to-face coaching with access to professional role models. The programme has been designed to increase motivation at school through developing aspirations & providing a personal context and relevance to daily education.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND RELIEVE POVERTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:1.1 IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC PROGRESS OF SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE; AND1.2 PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE

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: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £84,042 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a reduction of total funds to £167,861. The trustees acknowledge that the general funds balance of £89,981 is below the stated reserves policy target of £336,000 to £672,000, though unrestricted reserves excluding long-term loan liabilities are reported as £152,139. The charity has secured a social investment loan and expects to make a surplus going forward to rebuild reserves.

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 3 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 08825219

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Kingston — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Frances Soul — Chair of Trustees (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.

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.

• COSGROVE, Ian Francis — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• DANINO-LEWIS, Lisa — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• FRY, Henna Maria, Ms. — director, appointed 29/05/2024on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Gary Ashley — director, appointed 17/07/2023on trustee list
• CHEUNG, Celeste — director, appointed 12/08/2022on trustee list
• BURGESS, Heather — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• SOUL, Frances Joan — director, appointed 09/11/2020on trustee list
• HARE, Sebastian — director, appointed 23/12/2013on trustee list
• DEMPSEY, Patrick William — director, appointed 23/12/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 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 (55% 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: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frances Soulchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Celeste Cheung
• Gary Phillips
• Heather Burgess
• Henna Fry
• Ian Cosgrove
• Lisa Danino-Lewis
• SEBASTIAN HARE

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD FUTURES.

• SHEFFIELD FUTURES income £1.3m
• BRITISH FUTURE income £662k
• FUTURE FIRST ALUMNI LIMITED income £1.0m
• CREATIVE FUTURES (UK) LIMITED income £411k
• Refugee Futures Ltd income £251k
• FUTURES FOR KIDS income £308k

Side by side with its peers

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