THE ASHMORE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122351 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Ashmore Foundation supports causes within the Emerging Markets, particularly though not exclusively to the countries and communities in which the Ashmore Group invests. Our grant making policy is wide ranging but maintains a special focus on initiatives in education, livelihoods and social enterprise which benefit those most vulnerable and which support long-term self development.

Objects

SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 unrestricted reserves stood at $13.8 million as of 30 June 2025, an increase from the previous year's $11.9 million. The Trustees confirm that the Foundation has sufficient financial resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of the report. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis 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 Ernst & Young LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ashmore Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrick Cadellchair
• Christos Theodorou
• Dhiren Shah
• Emma Young
• JAMES CARLETON
• Mark Coombs
• Rashi Talwar Bhatia
• Satya Duhita
• Seki Mutukwa
• Sofia Rodriguez
• Thuy Dam

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

Operates in: Colombia · India · Indonesia · Peru

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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