CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Registered charity 1195850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q135700271 · 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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: (A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PRIMARILY IN THE FIELD OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROVIDING TRAINING COURSES AND MENTORSHIP, AND BY CONDUCTING AND PUBLISHING RESEARCH;(B) TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR, IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROVIDING GRANTS, EDUCATION, ADVICE OR OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, AND TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS SEEKING TO ESTABLISH OR SUPPORT CHARITIES OR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND(C) TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (SUCH AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW IN ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROVIDING GRANTS, EDUCATION, ADVICE OR OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO FURTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE:"THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR" MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS; "CHARITIES" ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES; AND"VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS" ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

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

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Samantha Kagel — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Aidan Alexander — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Jacintha Baas — Chief Growth Officer (source)
• Morgan Fairless — Research Director (source)
• Emma Stoks — Recruitment Director (source)
• Brechtje van den Bosch — Operations Director (source)
• Karolina Sarek — 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andres Guillermo Jimenez Zorrilla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Akhil Bansal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph John Savoie
• Karolina Sarek
• Patrick Peter Stadler
• Thomas David Billington

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.1m
• MY FOUNDATION income £430k
• REACH VOLUNTEERING income £724k
• MISSION IN THE ECONOMY income £140k
• BECOME CHARITY income £2.0m
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k

Side by side with its peers

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