ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (ASH)

Registered charity 262067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH LIMITED (ASH), ASH

ASH is an organisation which provides information on all aspects of tobacco and works to advance policies and measures that will help to prevent the addiction, disease and unnecessary premature death caused by smoking.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR SUCH PURPOSESFOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OFENGLAND AND WALES BOTH IN ENGLAND AND OVERSEAS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUTWITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE AFOREGOING WORDING):3.1 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE HARMFULEFFECTS OF CIGARETTE OR OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS; AND3.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTEAND OTHER TOBACCO AND NICOTINE PRODUCTS.

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a net deficit of £47,641, resulting in a decrease in general funds to £886,618. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains managed cash reserves of £752,729, which falls within its stated policy target of six to twelve months of forecast cash outflow. The charity relies on two core funders, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation, a dependency the trustees identify as a serious weakness.

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 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosanna Geraldine O'Connorchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Duncan
• Dr Anthony Laverty
• Dr Deborah Jean Robson
• Dr Nicholas Hopkinson PhD FRCP
• Dr Somen Banerjee
• Helen Walters · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamie Brown PhD
• Jane Elizabeth Ellison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Weldon
• Leanne Scott
• Linda Cuthbertson
• Nicholas Forbes
• Sanjay Agrawal · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASH WALES LIMITED.

• ASH WALES LIMITED income £321k
• Asthma and Lung UK income £16.1m
• THE ASHA FOUNDATION income £162k
• ROY CASTLE LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY income £149k
• ASHA: A COMMUNITY OF HOPE income £223k

Side by side with its peers

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