CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Registered charity 1195850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Ambitious Impact

Our mission is to:- Research charitable activities with a good evidence base for high impact,- Provide education in the form of training and advice to individuals on the subject of entrepreneurship andfounding charitable enterprises to engage in such activities, and- Support such individuals who found such organisations to help them succeed in the early stages of their growth

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£4.3m
Latest spending
£4.0m
Registered
2021
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £374,012 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves of £4,142,678 significantly exceeding its stated minimum wind-down target of £233,289. The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £233,289 (held: £4.1m)
“setting a minimum reserves target of £233,289. This represents the minimum amount required to wind down AIM’s operations in an orderly and compliant manner if continuation were no longer viable.” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Partner of trustee Thomas Billington received employee benefits.
“Thomas Billington is a trustee of Charity Entrepreneurship. His partner is employed by the charity and received employee benefits of £45,912 (2024:£41,765) during the year.” — page 48
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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

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

Total income
£4.3m
Total spending
£4.0m
Reserves (reported)
£2.5m
Employees
11

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.3m£4.0m
31/03/2024£5.0m£2.8m
31/03/2023£2.0m£1.5m
31/03/2022£776k£97k

Common questions

Is CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £374,012 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves of £4,142,678 significantly exceeding its stated minimum wind-down target of £233,289. The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.

Who funds CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP as a grant recipient include Founders Pledge Ltd, EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
Founders Pledge LtdFY2023£3.3m
Founders Pledge LtdFY2024£3.2m
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATIONFY2022£872k
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATIONFY2024£103k
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATIONFY2025£38k

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP£4.3m—0above—no doubt
BUSINESS LAUNCHPAD FY2025£1.5m£80,001 - £90,0001below—no doubt
APPRIS CHARITY LIMITED FY2025£3.7m£90,001 - £100,000—above—no doubt
HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK FY2025£184k—0unclear—no doubt
CHORTKOV TRUST FY2025£219k—0unclear—no doubt
SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD FY2025£3.1m——below—no doubt

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