Ashden Climate Solutions

Registered charity 1104153 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4804769 · Wikipedia · also known as ASHDEN, ASHDEN SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS, BETTER LIVES, THE ASHDEN AWARDS

To contribute to the protection of the environment, the advancement of education and relief of poverty for the public benefit in developing countries, UK and elsewhere, by promoting the use of local sustainable and renewable energy sources.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND WORLDWIDE IN RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES; AND2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE USE OF SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND WORLDWIDE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · 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 total reserves stood at £3,872,402, with free reserves of £597,262. The charity aims to maintain a stable free reserve of £500,000 or three months of committed spend, whichever is higher, and the trustees are satisfied that current levels are sufficient for the foreseeable future. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (FY2024) → 8 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 13/12/2023, 43 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Ashden Awards: Ujamaa Community Resource Team, nurturing land rights in Tanzania. smileymovement.org · 18/08/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05062574

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ashden Climate Solutions (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Edward Dean — Director of Business Development (source)
• Joanna Walton — Director of Communications & People (source)
• Mike Irwin — Director of Programmes (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• MCS Charitable Foundation — “MCS Charitable Foundation is proud to support Ashden’s local authority hubs project.” (source page)
• OVO Foundation — “The OVO Foundation Nature Prize is a long-running collaboration between Ashden’s award-winning Let’s Go Zero campaign and OVO Foundation.” (source page)
• Impax Asset Management — “Impax Asset Management has sponsored our awards in UK energy innovation award for 12 years.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHEPPARD, Gavin James — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• STAPLE, Tallulah — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• VANDER, William (Wim) Bruce — director, appointed 03/12/2024not on trustee list
• ENGLAND, Kit — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• SURESH, Shruti — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• SHIRLEY, Rebekah, Dr — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• KAMPHUIS, Jane Muigai — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• EVANS, Louise Marix — director, appointed 19/05/2021on trustee list
• CAMPANALE, Mark Adrian — director, appointed 19/03/2021on trustee list
• EVERETT, Karen — secretary, appointed 08/09/2015

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Rebekah Shirley
• Gavin Sheppard
• Jane Muigai Kamphuis
• Kit England
• Louise Marix Evans
• Mark Campanale
• Shruti Suresh Suresh
• Tallulah Staple · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wim - William Bruce Vanderhoof

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

Operates in: Cameroon · India · Kenya · Nigeria · Peru · South Africa · Throughout England · United States · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 PROTECT EARTH.

• PROTECT EARTH income £392k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• THE CLEARY FOUNDATION income £49k
• PLATFORM (LONDON) income £840k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION income £211k

Side by side with its peers

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