Ashden Climate Solutions

Registered charity 1104153 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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

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)

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY.

• SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY income £10.5m
• LTPP income £3.1m
• SUSTAINABILITY. HEALTH. ENVIRONMENT. DEVELOPMENT. income £2.8m
• TRANSITION BRO GWAUN LTD income £185k
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION income £211k
• BEAT THE COLD income £715k

Side by side with its peers

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