5RIGHTS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1178581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC049882 (OSCR)

The objects of the charity are to support children and young people in relation to their digital and technological activities and enable them to participate in a digital-first society as enabled and responsible individuals through education for the public benefit in digital and technological literacy, skills and competencies, including by carrying out research and publishing the useful results

Objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1.1 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THEIR DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND THE PARTICULAR VULNERABILITIES OF THEIR AGE; 2.1.2 TO ADVANCE IN LIFE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH PROVIDING SUPPORT, RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN A ‘DIGITAL-FIRST’ SOCIETY AS ENABLED AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND AS FULL CITIZENS;2.1.3 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN RELATION TO THEIR DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES;2.1.4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES AND IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE SUBJECT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHER VULNERABLE USERS, INCLUDING BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS.A 'DIGITAL-FIRST' SOCIETY REFERS TO A SOCIETY IN WHICH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERVICES ARE PRIMARILY OR EXCLUSIVELY OFFERED DIGITALLY, AND WHICH, ACCORDINGLY, REQUIRES INDIVIDUALS TO HAVE DIGITAL SKILLS, CAPABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES TO PARTICIPATE AND THRIVE IN IT.

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,827,834 and incurred expenditure of £1,693,312, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees report a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £1,513,157, which exceeds their stated policy target of retaining six months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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
• 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
• 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

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 11271356

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Peter Wanless — Chair (source)
• Leanda Barrington-Leach — Executive Director (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.

• SHAH, Alpesh — director, appointed 28/04/2026not on trustee list
• SEMEDALAS, Maria — director, appointed 03/11/2025on trustee list
• KHLAT, Diala Sanbar — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• OTANI, Mikiko — director, appointed 29/01/2024on trustee list
• GORDON, Dorothy — director, appointed 29/01/2024on trustee list
• DENHAM, Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• WANLESS, Peter Thomas, Sir — director, appointed 22/03/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~10.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Thomas Wanlesschair
• Alpesh Shal
• Diala Sanbar Khlat
• Dorothy Gordon
• Elizabeth Denham
• Maria Semedalas
• Mikiko Otani

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

Operates in: Belgium · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY RIGHT.

• CHARITY RIGHT income £3.0m
• CHILD RIGHTS AND YOU UK income £84k
• Digital Poverty Alliance income £1.8m
• DIGIT<ALL> income £355k
• HUMAN RIGHTS SOLIDARITY income £110k
• JUBILEE+ income £243k

Side by side with its peers

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