THE CIAO FOUNDATION CIO

Registered charity 1165353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHALLENGE IS AN OPPORTUNITY

CiaO provides aid, funding, practical support & encouragement to individuals whose life circumstances, health or injuries have resulted in them facing seemingly insurmountable challenges and help them achieve their goals. We do this by offering Grants to applicants that need guidance and support in order to fulfil their ambitions and overcome a challenge that may be stopping them thriving in life.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Windsor and Maidenhead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £60,118 against total expenditure of £74,252, resulting in a net movement in funds of (14,134). Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves carried forward were £105,338, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy to build reserves for charitable objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Fidum — “Dysart is so grateful for the ongoing support of The CiaO Foundation and Fidum’s generous donation to the school.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Charles Hogge Chair
• LOTTIE GEAVES
• RICHARD DUDLEY BRAZIER · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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

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 THE CAYO FOUNDATION.

• THE CAYO FOUNDATION income £400k
• MOVEMENT TO WORK income £868k
• CHRIST CENTRAL income £521k
• RE N-GAGE income £327k
• THE HELIOS FOUNDATION income £291k
• LOCAL WELCOME CIO income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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