# FUTURE FWD

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1215895
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Nov. 24, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1215895


## Contact

- **Address:** FUTURE FWD, 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London
- **Postcode:** W1W 7LT
- **Phone:** 07857051915
- **Email:** melissa@melissaramos.co.uk
- **Website:** https://www.futurefwd.info/



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM BACKGROUNDS CURRENTLY UNDER-REPRESENTED IN THE FIELD OF GRAPHIC DESIGN WHO ARE STUDYING ART, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY GRAPHIC DESIGN, BY: - PROVIDING GRANTS TO COVER TUITION, RESOURCES, ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT AND RELATED EXPENSES; AND - PROVIDING ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND MENTORING THROUGHOUT THEIR STUDIES AND AIDING IN SECURING INTERNSHIPS WITHIN THE GRAPHIC DESIGN INDUSTRY.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ‘UNDER-REPRESENTED’ REFERS TO INDIVIDUALS FROM MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS AND LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS.

**Activities:** The FUTURE FWD scholarship has been created to advance equality and inclusion in graphic design education. The £30,000 scholarship provides material costs and living expenses for a student studying Graphic Design, as well as access to mentorship throughout their course and a paid internship opportunity with one of the studios who support the scholarship.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations
- **What:** Education/training
- **Who:** Children/young People, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales




## Trustees

- ABBIE LAHIFFE — appointed Dec. 16, 2025
- LUKE POWELL — appointed Dec. 16, 2025
- ZAK KYES — appointed Dec. 16, 2025