The Edith Ashby Support Fund

Registered charity 208792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LHH, Linking Help with Hope since 1908, THE LEAGUE OF THE HELPING HAND

One off and quarterly payments to individuals in hardship due to illness or disability throughout the UK.

Objects

TO HELP AND ALLEVIATE INDIVIDUAL CASES OF SUFFERING IN MIND OR BODY AMONG PERSONS WHO,IN THE OPINION OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF THE LEAGUE, REQUIRE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OWING TO ILL HEALTH, ACCIDENT OR INFIRMITY AND ARE BOTH DESERVING AND NECESSITOUS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Latest income

£175k

Latest spending

£159k

Registered

1962

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a surplus of just under £17k and total unrestricted funds of £2,573,951. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to cover forthcoming management and administrative expenditure and regular grants, with 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: sufficient to cover forthcoming management and administrative expenditure and regular grants and donations to which it is committed (held: £2.6m)

“The level of reserves is sufficient to cover forthcoming management and administrative expenditure and regular grants and donations to which it is committed.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Duncan McBride
JULIAN SIMMONS KORN · trustee of 3 other charities
Julia Vockrodt
Marie Anne Patterson
Nathalie Hay
Nicola Cowland
Trevor James Brown
William Lavelle
caroline foster · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£175k	£159k
31/03/2024	£139k	£179k
31/03/2023	£198k	£163k
31/03/2022	£165k	£168k
31/03/2021	£149k	£190k

Common questions

Is The Edith Ashby Support Fund financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a surplus of just under £17k and total unrestricted funds of £2,573,951. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to cover forthcoming management and administrative expenditure and regular grants, with no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	1	£1.1m
UNITED TALMUDICAL ASSOCIATES LTD	1	£308k
THREE PILLARS TRUST	1	£240k
DILLHAVEN LIMITED	1	£208k
ROSCA TRUST	1	£132k
MYR CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£98k
UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE	1	£88k
THE TOY TRUST	1	£86k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YISHAYA ADLER MEMORIAL FUND.

YISHAYA ADLER MEMORIAL FUND income £3.3m
ASHA: A COMMUNITY OF HOPE income £223k
THE ASHA FOUNDATION income £162k
THE ASHLA CHARITABLE TRUST income £103k
ACTION WITH AWARENESS REGARDING EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £173k
Safe Steps income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
The Edith Ashby Support Fund	£175k	—	above	—	no doubt
YISHAYA ADLER MEMORIAL FUND FY2025	£3.3m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ASHA: A COMMUNITY OF HOPE FY2024	£223k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ASHA FOUNDATION FY2025	£162k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ASHLA CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£103k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ACTION WITH AWARENESS REGARDING EDUCATION FOUNDATION FY2025	£173k	—	unclear	86.0%	no doubt

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