FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 292403 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5474500 · Wikipedia

FORWARD is an African women-led organisation working to end violence against women and girls. From female genital mutilation and child marriage to domestic and sexual violence, we tackle abuse and discrimination, enabling African women and girls to have the dignity, health and equality they deserve. We provide training, advice, support, research and advocacy to shape policies and programmes.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG WOMEN IN AFRICA. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING DISEASE, SICKNESS AND MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND WHETHER ARISING FROM ANY PUBLIC CALAMITY OR OTHERWISE.

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £871,410, while total expenditure was higher at £937,334, resulting in a net deficit for the period. Despite this, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £530,341, which the trustees consider adequate to maintain operations for up to six months. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization remains 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 Goldwins Limited. 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundation For Women's Health Research And Development (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr TITILOLA BANJOKOchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ama Atteen
• Aniesha Obuobie
• Christina Sandkuhler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr LISA NOELLE SMITH
• Joanna Henderson Abraham
• Joy Fraser- Amosun
• Kadra Abdinasir
• Obianuju Aderemi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vanessa Thomas Ms

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

Operates in: Ghana · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Throughout England · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 FORWARD ASSIST LIMITED.

• FORWARD ASSIST LIMITED income £52k
• THE FORWARD TRUST income £44.4m
• ADVANCE ADVOCACY AND NON-VIOLENCE COMMUNITY EDUCATION income £9.4m
• DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• FORWARD THINKING income £966k

Side by side with its peers

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