THE VALUABLE 500 FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1204890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are building a global community of 500 CEOs and their businesses. The transformational change programme works with The Valuable 500 community to improve their performance across leadership, culture, brand, reporting, research, data and representation. The scale of the disability inequality crisis globally cannot be resolved without business. Inclusive business creates inclusive societies.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(1) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY, FOR EXAMPLE:(A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF DISABILITY;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN RELATION TO DISABILITIES; AND(C) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES RELATED TO DISABILITIES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; ANDTHE REFERENCE TO " DISABILITY" OR "DISABILITIES" SHALL BE TO DEVELOPMENTAL, LEARNING, PHYSICAL OR ACQUIRED DISABILITIES OR CONDITIONS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income and expenditure were both £1,454,663, resulting in a break-even operating surplus for the year. Actual unrestricted reserves of £392,410 are below the board's stated policy target of £500,000. The charity holds a significant HMRC PAYE debt and relies on diverse funding sources including sponsorship and grants.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13648617 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — THE VALUABLE 500 FOUNDATION (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katy Talikowska — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Mark Hodgkinson — Chair (source)
• Paul Polman — 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Nikkei — “Valuable 500 Partners with Nikkei and The Nippon Foundation to Deliver the SYNC25 Accountability Summit.” (source page)
• The Nippon Foundation — “Valuable 500 Partners with Nikkei and The Nippon Foundation to Deliver the SYNC25 Accountability Summit.” (source page)

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.

• HODGKINSON, Mark Philip — director, appointed 13/06/2026on trustee list
• GALLEGOS, Luis — director, appointed 08/05/2025on trustee list
• KABASAWA, Ichiro — director, appointed 08/05/2025on trustee list
• DAVIS, Katherine — director, appointed 09/07/2024on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Samantha Ruth — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• GUNNING, Jonathan — secretary, appointed 10/06/2025

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ichiro Kabasawa
• Katherine Davis
• Luis Gallegos
• Mark Hodgkinson
• Samantha Ruth Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DISABILITY POSITIVE.

• DISABILITY POSITIVE income £4.2m
• THE TRUST FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES income £3.1m
• BUSINESS DISABILITY FORUM income £4.4m
• SOCIAL VALUE INTERNATIONAL income £611k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• 500K INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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