THE CH FOUNDATION (UK)

Registered charity 1156222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191000 · also known as CHF

The Foundation's objectives are the holding of income and property upon trust and to apply the income for the public benefit for exclusively charitable objects and purposes in any part of the world.

Objects

THE CHARITY?S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(A) TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS OR HUMAN SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING OR OTHER SERIOUS OR ORGANISED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE HEALTH IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND IN JAMAICA; AND(C) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £59,783,777, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet ongoing grant-making and governance costs. The filing notes a positive outlook with net incoming resources increasing to £19,115,427, supported by significant voluntary donations from related parties. The Trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 28/02/2023 (received 18/01/2024, 21 days after the 28/12/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08702259

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.

• LEHTIMAKI, Marko Pekka, Dr — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
• HOHN, Christopher Anthony — director, appointed 06/06/2016on trustee list
• KING, Matthew John — director, appointed 23/09/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Marko Lehtimaki · trustee of 1 other charity
• MATTHEW JOHN KING · trustee of 2 other charities
• SIR Christopher Hohn

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · India · Jamaica · Rwanda · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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