THE ASDA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1124268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide financial support to charities and local good causes in times of crisis and to build community resilience longer term through direct support and involvement of Asda colleagues locally in stores through our grant giving programmes.

Objects

A TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES OR FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED.B TO MAKE DONATIONS OR PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR: 1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, 2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, 3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, 4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES, 5) THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; ANDC TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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 · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The ASDA Foundation reported a net expenditure deficit of £169,766 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £3,240,187. The charity is heavily reliant on its sole donor, ASDA Stores Limited, which provided £3,629,450 in donations. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has sufficient cash balances and agreed income to meet its obligations for the twelve-month period following the approval of the financial statements, with no material uncertainties regarding its going concern status.

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.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

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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).

• Who’s Funding: Western Power Distribution and Asda Foundation civilsociety.co.uk · 06/06/2022

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karl Doyle — Chair (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 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 (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Earnshaw
• John Fallon
• Karl Andrew Doyle
• Margaret Ann Jones
• Mark Benton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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