THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE

Registered charity 1191923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to keep Modern Slavery on the agenda, this includes the business agenda, the political agenda and the public agenda. The Anti-Slavery Collective works with others to combat forced labour in business supply chains. We connect and convene people, groups and ideas and use storytelling to build awareness and shift narratives on labour exploitation.

Objects

3. OBJECTS THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY AND THE INCOME THEREOF UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAID INCOME AND (IF AND SO OFTEN AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT) THE WHOLE OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY AS THEY SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN SHALL AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES TO APPLY ANY PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY OR THE INCOME THEREOF TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY OBJECTS OR PURPOSES AS AFORESAID SAVE THOSE WHICH ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING PARAGRAPH (1), TO BE A GRANT MAKER SUPPORTING AND WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RECOGNISED CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS, "NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATIONS" AND COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE CONCERNED WITH OPPOSITION TO THE PRACTICE OR SYSTEM OF SLAVERY IN ALL ITS FORMS THROUGH EDUCATION, THE PROVISION OF RELIEF OR OTHERWISE, PROVIDED THAT ANY SUCH SUPPORT SHALL BE CONDITIONED UPON IT BEING APPLIED SOLELY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.NOTHING IN THIS DEED SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

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

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

Latest income
£92k
Latest spending
£301k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £1,294,296 to £1,085,583 during the year, resulting in a net movement in funds of negative £208,713. The trustees report that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The reserves policy is designed to underwrite the organisation's costs over a three-year period based on a fundraising cycle.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: underwrite the costs of the organisation over a three year period (reserves figure: £1.1m)
“Based on this fundraising cycle and the organisation’s size and scale, the Reserves Policy is designed to underwrite the costs of the organisation over a three year period.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£90,001–£100,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Volunteers: 1

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 13/05/2024, 98 days after the 05/02/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Total income
£1.6m
Total spending
£378k
Reserves (reported)
£1.3m
Employees
1

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£92k£301k
05/04/2024£1.6m£378k
05/04/2023£48k£41k
05/04/2022£16k£31k

Common questions

Is THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £1,294,296 to £1,085,583 during the year, resulting in a net movement in funds of negative £208,713. The trustees report that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The reserves policy is designed to underwrite the organisation's costs over a three-year period based on a fundraising cycle. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE as a grant recipient include FRANKS FAMILY FOUNDATION, REUBEN FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
FRANKS FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
REUBEN FOUNDATIONFY2023£10k
FRANKS FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2024£1k

The FY2023 grant list of REUBEN FOUNDATION, which names this charity, was corrected after a reader report.

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 ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE£92k—0unclear—no doubt
ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL FY2025£3.7m——unclear—no doubt
UNSEEN (UK) FY2025£3.4m——below—no doubt
SAVE THE FAMILY LTD FY2025£995k£60,001 - £70,0000unclear—no doubt
THE CLEWER INITIATIVE FY2025£347k—0unclear—no doubt
TRIBE FREEDOM FOUNDATION FY2025£218k—0unclear—no doubt

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