CIVIC FUTURE

Registered charity 1204528 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Civic Future has the aim of strengthening civic society and democracy through improving the quality of public leadership. Our programme identifies and supports talented individuals committed to liberal ideas to enter public life, and trains and develops them to be effective in a variety of roles.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £1.38 million in income and held £718,157 in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees consider comfortable within their policy target range. The trustees and auditors confirm 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 audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £200,001 - £210,000 (FY2024) to £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14442742

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Mendoza — Chair (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.

• BUSH, William — director, appointed 25/10/2022on trustee list
• CHAMBERLAIN, Emma Jane Mary — director, appointed 25/10/2022on trustee list
• MENDOZA, Neil, Lord — director, appointed 25/10/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Mendozachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• EMMA JANE MARY CHAMBERLAIN
• William Bush · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 FUTURE.

• FUTURE income £268k
• THE CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION income £715k
• CIVIC POWER FUND income £3.4m
• ASSOCIATION FOR CITIZENSHIP TEACHING income £853k
• Future Men income £1.2m
• FORUM FOR THE FUTURE income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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