Common questions about Ashden Climate Solutions's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Ashden Climate Solutions a good charity? +
Ashden Climate Solutions scores 66 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Ashden Climate Solutions a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Ashden Climate Solutions as a registered charity (charity number 1104153). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1104153&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Ashden Climate Solutions's charity number? +
Ashden Climate Solutions's charity number is 1104153. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Ashden Climate Solutions's charity rating? +
Ashden Climate Solutions scores 66 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Ashden Climate Solutions have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Ashden Climate Solutions. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Ashden Climate Solutions? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of Ashden Climate Solutions's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Ashden Climate Solutions's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 7% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Ashden Climate Solutions. Ashden Climate Solutions's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Ashden Climate Solutions receive? +
Ashden Climate Solutions reported £7.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Ashden Climate Solutions's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-06-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Ashden Climate Solutions based? +
Ashden Climate Solutions's registered contact address is in London (SW1V 1AP). It tells the regulator it operates in Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, United States, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Ashden Climate Solutions's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Ashden Climate Solutions's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Ashden Climate Solutions's money come from? +
Ashden Climate Solutions reported £7.4m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £6.9m (93%), charitable activities £336k (5%), trading and fundraising events £116k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £20k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Ashden Climate Solutions? +
The register records Ashden Climate Solutions as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Ashden Climate Solutions's trustees paid? +
Ashden Climate Solutions's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Ashden Climate Solutions previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Ashden Climate Solutions: The Ashden Awards; Ashden Sustainable Solutions, Better Lives.
When was Ashden Climate Solutions registered as a charity? +
Ashden Climate Solutions was entered on the register on 4 June 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05062574).
How does CharityCompare score Ashden Climate Solutions? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Ashden Climate Solutions's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Ashden Climate Solutions's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.