THE FRONTLINE ORGANISATION

Registered charity 1163194 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRONTLINE; THE FRONTLINE

Frontline recruits and develops outstanding individuals to be social workers and leaders to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children and families.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £23.5m and net income of £0.9m for the year ended 31 August 2025. It held unrestricted reserves of £9.1m, which exceeds its stated free reserves target of £7.5m. The trustees confirmed the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Department for Education — “Our work has only been made possible with the support from the Department for Education, organisations and individuals.” (source page)
• ARK — “Founding partners ARK” (source page)
• A&O Shearman Foundation — “Supporters A&O Shearman Foundation” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Edward Timpson CBE KC · trustee of 3 other charities
• Brigitte Jordaan
• Christin Owings
• Clare Schmid
• Eric Wedge-Bull
• Jacob Rosenzweig
• John Shield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Gayle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Christopher William Kelly
• Susan Macmillan
• Timothy John Aldridge

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 FRONTLINE PARTNERSHIP.

• FRONTLINE PARTNERSHIP income £266k
• THE FRONTLINE CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST income £354k
• Frontline AIDS income £16.0m
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHILDREN'S SOCIETY income £40.6m
• FRONTIERS income £1.9m
• THE FRONTIERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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