KOREA FUTURE INITIATIVE CIO

Registered charity 1185332 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KOREA FUTURE INITIATIVE, Korea Future

We investigate human rights violations in North Korea to support accountability for perpetrators and accelerate justice for victims.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) IN NORTH KOREA BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;C) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;D) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;E) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS;F) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;G) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; ANDH) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWERTO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS.2) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH THE RAISING AND PROVISION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE SAFE PASSAGE TO THIRD-COUNTRIES.

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

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Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £51,877, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £61,846 (representing three months of unrestricted expenditure). The trustees identified a lack of funds to meet obligations as the greatest risk to the organisation, noting that greater diversification of income remains a challenge.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 13/11/2026, 13 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Stephen Ian Windridgechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mitra Moadab Motlagh
• Victoria Jane Nida

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

Operates in: South Korea · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONNECT: NORTH KOREA.

• CONNECT: NORTH KOREA income £514k
• COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO) income £1.7m
• National Independent Consumer Organisation income £100k
• NEW BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION CIO income £813k
• THE CORPORATE JUSTICE COALITION CIO income £193k
• KOREAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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