AKO FOUNDATION
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Cash
£101m
+3.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£1.3bn
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
2
+100% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-12-31
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total income | — | — | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | £103,775,000 | £44,237,000 | -£15,422,000 | -134.9% | |
| Cash | £126,983,000 | £97,472,000 | £100,818,000 | +3.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,178,071,000 | £1,281,420,000 | £1,299,164,000 | +1.4% | |
| Net assets | £1,178,071,000 | £1,267,236,000 | £1,271,882,000 | +0.4% | |
| Equity | £1,178,071,000 | £1,267,236,000 | £1,271,882,000 | +0.4% | |
| Average employees | 1 | 1 | 2 | +100% | |
| Wages | £99,000 | £155,000 | £188,000 | +21.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £5,000 | £14,000 | +180% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 2.4% | 3.6% | 5.5% | |
| Current ratio | 7.89x | 4.83x | 2.52x |
Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Sayer Vincent LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Accordingly, the trustees believe there is a reasonable expectation that the Foundation will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future; they have thus continued to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- AKO FOUNDATION · parent
- AKO Subsidiary 2020 Limited 100%
Significant events
- “towards the end of 2025, the Foundation's 13th year of existence, the cumulative amount of new grants approved exceeded £390 million.”
- “In October 2025, the Booker Prize Foundation announced the Children's Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation as its founding partner and principal funder.”
- “In 2025 the Foundation made a grant to support Ark's merger with Pontefract Academies Trust (PAT), a smaller multi-academy trust based in West Yorkshire.”
- “The Foundation gave matching grants of around £359k under this scheme in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PROCOPIS, Sally Morven | Director | 2020-02-28 | Feb 1970 | British |
| SYSE, Henrik Preben | Director | 2013-02-01 | Apr 1966 | Norwegian |
| WOODBURN, David Matthew | Director | 2013-02-01 | Feb 1962 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYMAN, Martin Richard | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2020-02-28 |
| TANGEN, Katja Nissen | Director | 2018-04-27 | 2020-07-01 |
| TANGEN, Nicolai | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2020-07-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Nicola Jane Staples | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr David Matthew Woodburn | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 40 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2020-03-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-24 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-06-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-02-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-03-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.