Freda Ashmore Scholarship Fund

Analysis

Freda Ashmore Scholarship Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Middlesex. It was registered in July 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Freda Ashmore Scholarship Fund reported income of £10k and spending of £14k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £25k to £10k (-58%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 236%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Freda Ashmore Scholarship Fund sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bucks Uniformed Youth (£10k), The Dowley Charitable Trust (£10k) and Southport Kidney Fund [patient Support and Research] (£10k).