THE OVO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1155954 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The OVO Foundation is OVO's charity. Everything we do focuses on young people and the climate as we work towards our mission of creating a greener, brighter future for the next generation. Our main activity to meet our mission is supporting charity partners through our climate-focused funding programmes.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.2m

Latest spending

£1.7m

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £504,762 in 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £1,556,769. The trustees report that the charity maintains a strong net asset position and has no reason to believe future funding from OVO Energy Ltd will not be available, despite the pending sale of the parent company.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: at least 20% of our annual charitable expenditure (held: £1.6m)

“we maintain reserves equivalent to at least 20% of our annual charitable expenditure.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Total income

£1.2m

Total spending

£1.7m

Reserves (reported)

£1.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Gina Cicerone
Innocent Mutindi
Katherine Goldsmith
Mahnoor Kamran
Roseanne Baxter
Thomas Luke Whittle
Thomas Wilson

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.2m	£1.7m
31/12/2024	£1.0m	£780k
31/12/2023	£1.0m	£1.1m
31/12/2022	£1.1m	£939k
31/12/2021	£1000k	£799k

Common questions

Is THE OVO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £504,762 in 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £1,556,769. The trustees report that the charity maintains a strong net asset position and has no reason to believe future funding from OVO Energy Ltd will not be available, despite the pending sale of the parent company. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TRUST FOR LONDON	1	£815k
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION	1	£500k
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY	1	£486k
Rights and Security International	1	£225k
POWER TO CHANGE TRUST	1	£129k
BACK ON THE MAP LIMITED	1	£53k
THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST	1	£25k
THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OVO.

OVO income £689k
SAO FOUNDATION income £812k
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION income £1.4m
THE OCTOPUS FOUNDATION income £329k
THE OAK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
Sonu & Eva Foundation income £472k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE OVO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	£1.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
OVO FY2025	£689k	—	0	below	30000.0%	no doubt
SAO FOUNDATION FY2025	£812k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION FY2024	£1.4m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE OCTOPUS FOUNDATION FY2025	£329k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE OAK FOUNDATION FY2025	£1.2m	over £60,000	1	unclear	—	noted

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