FACE EQUALITY INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1198641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As a growing Alliance of international NGOs, our collective actions focus on furthering the global face equality movement by advocating for disfigurement equality, eliminating the life-limiting stigma and prejudice associated with facial difference, building a community and campaigning for an equitable society. The charity runs in the UK, with an international membership.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF DISABILITY, AND IN PARTICULAR ON THE GROUNDS OF FACIAL OR OTHER PHYSICAL DISFIGUREMENTS FROM ANY CAUSE.(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DISFIGUREMENT;(C) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO 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.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £276,704 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a significant increase in grant income. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £359,586, which the trustees consider sufficient and above their stated policy target of 4 to 6 months of operational expenditure. The trustees are satisfied that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Face Equality International (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jill Clarkchair
• Charlotte Venter
• Dean Gillespie
• Francesca Witcomb
• Henrietta Spalding
• Henrietta Worthington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Wilden

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

Operates in: 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 FACE FRONT INCLUSIVE THEATRE LIMITED.

• FACE FRONT INCLUSIVE THEATRE LIMITED income £320k
• CHANGING FACES income £1.3m
• THE FACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £65k
• FACIAL PALSY UK income £126k
• FACIAL THERAPY SPECIALISTS INTERNATIONAL income £106k
• FAT FACE FOUNDATION income £647k

Side by side with its peers

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