THE FAITH & BELIEF FORUM

Registered charity 1173369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE THREE FAITHS FORUM, THREE FAITHS FORUM (3FF)

Building good relations between people of all faiths and beliefs

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS HARMONY AND GOOD COMMUNAL RELATIONS THROUGH PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF, AND RESPECT FOR, THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS, AND BELIEFS

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net decrease in funds of £32,838, reducing its net assets to £77,039. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £39,000 are below the stated policy target of £40,000–£150,000, and the trustees have adopted a going concern basis based on a planned restructuring and forecasted cost savings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Faith & Belief Forum (Formerly 3FF) (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (71% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Anthony Ziffchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Bibi Rabbiyah Khan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dalvinder Darroch
• James Lloyd Baxendale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marie Sarah van der Zyl · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Ali Amla
• NOAM TAMIR · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Germany · Israel · Sweden · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Michael Anthony Ziff — trustee here and at THE MARJORIE & ARNOLD ZIFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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 FAITHLIFT MINISTRIES.

• FAITHLIFT MINISTRIES income £66k
• FAITHINVEST income £328k
• OLDHAM INTERFAITH FORUM income £62k
• FREE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST FELLOWSHIP income £214k
• WOOLF INSTITUTE income £835k
• FAITH FOR THE CLIMATE income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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