FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES

Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hatred. The curriculum resources and training combine academic rigour, emotional engagement and ethical reflection so that students learn to engage in civil discourse, learn critical thinking skills and develop civic agency to help create a more inclusive and empathetic society.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2024
People

10 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
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£70k to £80k | 1 |
£120k to £130k | 1 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Throughout England And Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
Governance
- 05 May 2004: Standard registration
- FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES LTD (Previous name)
- 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
- 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
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
10 Trustee(s)
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Susan Lynn Schmidt Whiddington CBE | Trustee | 02 April 2025 |
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Hiral Kelly | Trustee | 02 April 2025 |
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Rudi Alastair Eliott Lockhart | Trustee | 02 April 2025 |
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Andrew Seton | Trustee | 13 July 2023 |
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Mark Robert Echlin | Trustee | 13 July 2023 |
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Rapheal Eleazar Offer | Trustee | 19 June 2020 |
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Iman Louise Pyne-Jones | Trustee | 19 June 2020 |
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Anne-Marie Fitzgerald | Trustee | 14 February 2019 |
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Rita Susan Halbright | Trustee | 25 March 2013 |
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Judy Wise | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
Income / Expenditure | 30/06/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £572.50k | £473.08k | £356.08k | £558.22k | £379.22k | |
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Total expenditure | £451.61k | £333.51k | £344.14k | £415.33k | £475.40k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £7.94k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £548.54k | N/A | N/A | £540.69k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £23.96k | N/A | N/A | £14.75k | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | £2.78k | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £451.61k | N/A | N/A | £391.76k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | N/A | N/A | £23.57k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £24.57k | N/A | N/A | £8.92k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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Annual return | 30 June 2024 | 25 April 2025 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2024 | 25 April 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2023 | 30 April 2024 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2023 | 30 April 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2022 | 03 May 2023 | 3 days late | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2022 | 03 May 2023 | 3 days late | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2021 | 28 April 2022 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2021 | 28 April 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Annual return | 30 June 2020 | 03 February 2021 | On Time | |
Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2020 | 03 February 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
Governing document
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.
CIO - FOUNDATION CONVERSION DATED 31 OCT 2019
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP BY: A) ENGAGING STUDENTS OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS IN AN EXAMINATION OF RACISM, PREJUDISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MORE HUMANE AND INFORMED CITIZENRY; B) ASSISTING TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DEVELOP CURRICULUM DESIGNED TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE LINK EVENTS AND TRENDS IN HISTORY TO THE ISSUES OF INDIVIDUAL CHOICE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THEIR DAY TO DAY EXPERIENCES; AND C) INCREASING AND STRENGTHENING THE WORLDWIDE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN MITIGATING VIOLENCE BETWEEN PEOPLES AND PROMOTING CIVIL SOCIETIES.
Area of benefit
NOT DEFINED
Contact information
- Address:
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Canopi
Unit A
Arc House
82 Tanner Street
LONDON
SE1 3GN
- Phone:
- (020) 3096 7844
- Email:
- uk@facinghistory.org
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