The Considered Ask Foundation

Registered charity 1195905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BIG ASK FOUNDATION

The foundation supports work in the UK. We champion, fund and increase the impact of high potential charities that use training, education and counselling to bring about positive, lasting, measurable change in people's lives.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ACTIVITIES CONTEMPLATING THE REDUCTION OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS;B) TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ISSUES CONNECTED WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT; C) TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION, DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY, OF GRANTS, ITEMS, SERVICES AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS;D) TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT; AND E) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SEE 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £1,504,501.98 to £1,323,599.83 due to a net deficit of £180,902.15 for the year. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and that reserves are sufficient to meet existing obligations. Operational costs were largely covered by donated services from a related party, The ASK Charitable Trust.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Couch Bright King & Co. 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sophie Nichola Ann Kingsleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amy Eleanor Swart
• Anthony John Kingsley
• William Brocklebank

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ADINT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ADINT CHARITABLE TRUST income £212k
• ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS income £1.7m
• EXCEL FUND income £33k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• THINK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £50k
• J E POSNANSKY CHARITABLE TRUST income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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