COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO)

Registered charity 1208989 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLLECTIVE FUTURES

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Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.7m
Registered
2024
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £29,337 and total free/unrestricted reserves of £323,551. This amount is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £204,264, which covers three months of operating costs and one month of expected grant awards. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operating costs (£87,598) and one month of expected grant awards... totalling £204,264 (held: £324k)
“Our reserves policy is to hold at least three months of operating costs (£87,598) and one month of expected grant awards, calculated as the average of grant commitments forecasted throughout the fiscal year (£116,666) – totalling £204,264.”
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.7m
Reserves (reported)
£324k
Employees
2

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 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

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£1.7m£1.7m
31/03/2025£1.4m£885k

Common questions

Is COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO) financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £29,337 and total free/unrestricted reserves of £323,551. This amount is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £204,264, which covers three months of operating costs and one month of expected grant awards. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2026 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO) as a grant recipient include THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST, The Ethos Foundation, THE DULVERTON TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2026£1.8m
The Ethos FoundationFY2024£90kCo-funding partnership
THE DULVERTON TRUSTFY2026£25kEarly Childhood Development Funders Partnership

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 FOUNDATION FUTURES CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COLLECTIVE FUTURES (CIO)£1.7m——above—no doubt
FOUNDATION FUTURES CIO FY2025£179k—0unclear—no doubt
THE OITIJ-JO COLLECTIVE FY2024£154k—0unclear—no doubt
FULL FACT FY2024£2.9m——within—no doubt
JACOBS FUTURA FOUNDATION FY2024£16.0m——above—no doubt
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED FY2025£479k—0above—no doubt

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