The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

Registered charity 262067 Registered since 1971

Operates: Throughout England

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

14 trustees on the board

5.1y median 4.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (4)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Disability 1Education/training 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 14Professional services 6Property 4

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£913k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 11.1 in 2021

12 from 9 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
13%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.ash.org.uk
Emailenquiries@ash.org.uk
Phone07958563097
AddressACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH (ASH), Unit 2.9, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, LONDON

Finances

£913,072 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£929,448£855,767
2022£1,011,616£836,682
2023£791,111£765,822
2024£903,313£973,692
2025£913,072£960,713

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable 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.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6TH JANUARY 1971, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14TH JUNE 1979 AND 10 JANUARY 1994. AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17 FEBRUARY 2010. as amended on 25 Oct 2022

Trustees (14)

14trustees
60median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Action on Smoking and Health · 00998971 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 06/01/1971

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (4)

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