OUR FUTURE

Registered charity 1206886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Future unlocks the power and potential of communities to build a flourishing future. We work primarily with communities experiencing deprivation. We bring together local leaders and communities to create their own vision and support them to transform the home towns they love. We do this by connecting ideas and local energy, to resources and a national network.

Objects

2.1 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCING DEPRIVATION, BY:2.1.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN THOSE COMMUNITIES; IN PARTICULAR BY NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING LOCAL NETWORKING GROUPS, WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT TO IMPROVE WELLBEING AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION;2.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION AND IMPROVING OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THOSE COMMUNITIES; AND2.1.3 RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS IN RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN POST-INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES BY PROMOTING STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE SUBJECT AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.2.2 FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLAUSE 2.1:A) "COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCING DEPRIVATION" MEANS COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, AS INDICATED BY THEM INCLUDING WARDS IN THE TOP 25% OF THE ENGLISH INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2019, WELSH INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2019 AND ANY SUCCESSOR INDICES OR EQUIVALENT INDICES IN OTHER GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; ANDB) "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total funds of £278,720, having generated a net income of £67,554. The trustees note that unrestricted funds represent grant income secured for year 3 operations and that the three-month reserves policy threshold was met. The charity relies on proactive fundraising to maintain adequate runway for future costs.

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 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Derrick Bancroft Anderson CBE
• Dr Majdi Osman · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Perry
• Lucia Keijer-Palau
• Sacha Veronica Pemberthy

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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
• TROWBRIDGE COMMUNITY AREA FUTURE income £396k
• FUTURE-FIT FOUNDATION income £107k
• FORUM FOR THE FUTURE income £6.9m
• Refugee Futures Ltd income £251k
• CREATIVE FUTURE income £186k

Side by side with its peers

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