FUTURE ACADEMY

Registered charity 1187737 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Future Academy provides humanitarian support, education, sport and enrichment activities for conflict-affected children in Beirut. Our goals are to improve access to higher education and employment; build the strong emotional foundations needed to thrive and be mentally healthy; and to provide opportunities for friendship and fun.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are for the public benefit to advance in life and relieve the needs of refugee, stateless and internally-displaced young people up to the age of 18 living in Lebanon by:A) Developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;B) Advancing education;C) Providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life for such persons.

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

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

Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £14,954 for the year, with total income of £63,310 against expenditure of £48,356. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £6,300 at year-end, with £5,000 designated as a contingency fund to manage cashflow and respond to funding shortfalls.

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
• 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
• 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 — Future Academy (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Martin Wattschair
• Antonia Isobel Elliott
• Damien Andrew Gabet
• James William Watts
• Jane Nicola Watts

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

Operates in: Lebanon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• FUTURE income £268k
• BRITISH FUTURE income £662k
• FUTURE FRONTIERS income £1.4m
• FUTURE FIRST ALUMNI LIMITED income £1.0m
• BRIGHTER FUTURE INITIATIVE income £30k
• FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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