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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE AND ALLIED FIELDS BY PROVIDING TRAINING COURSES WHICH COMBINE STUDY-BASED LEARNING AND SUPERVISED PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING, AND BY ANY OTHER RELEVANT METHODS.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE AND ALLIED FIELDS TO IMPROVE STANDARDS OF SOCIAL CARE.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £23.5m from £25.2m in the prior year, while total expenditure fell to £22.6m from £24.5m, resulting in a net income of £0.9m. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £9.1m, which exceeds its stated policy target of £7.5m, and the trustees confirm 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 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Frontline Organisation Number of Employees 2026 | Employee Count & Headcount Data reveliolabs.com · 31/07/2026

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 (3.7%) (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
• Rasheed Pendry OBE
• 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

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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 FRONTLINE CHILDREN.

• FRONTLINE CHILDREN income £13k
• FRONTLINE PARTNERSHIP income £266k
• FRONTLINE NATIONS income £66k
• LIFELINE HELP income £85k
• FRONTLINE MINISTRIES ENFIELD TRUST income £74k
• LIFELINE CHURCH income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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