The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation

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UK grant-making charity of Global Media founder Ashley Tabor-King

The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation is an English registered charity (no. 1178634). It was created by declaration of trust dated 31 May 2018 by settlor Ashley Tabor-King CBE and registered on 5 June 2018. Principal office: Global Media & Entertainment Ltd, 29–30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LA. Bankers: Coutts. Accountants: BDO.[1][2]

Objects: general charitable purposes, in particular first-responder health and welfare (PTSD and other job-related harm; paramedics, police, fire, RNLI, mountain rescue, bereaved families) and advancing young people.[1]

Grant policy: applications considered by trustees “on their own merit.” No minimum reserves. Incoming resources are donations (plus Gift Aid in some years). The accounts never name the donor; debtors have included “Due from Ashley Tabor-King” (£150,000 at 5 April 2022; £23,073 at 5 April 2023; £4,200 at 5 April 2024).[3][4]

Year to 5 April 2025: income £112,416, expenditure £1,021,253. Cash at Coutts fell from £1,004,625 to £4,625 after the £1m air-ambulance grant. No trustee pay or expenses in any year filed.[5][2]

People

Name Role Dates Notes
Ashley Tabor-King CBE Chair / settlor 31 May 2018– Founder and executive president, Global Media & Entertainment (owns LBC, Capital, Heart, Classic FM, Global Academy). First term originally 7 years; 2025 report restates chair term as 3 years. OBE 2017, CBE 2024. Son of Michael Tabor.
Charles Allen, Baron Allen of Kensington CBE Trustee 31 May 2018– Senior director, Global, from 2007. Also Invictus Games Foundation. First term 5 years.
Stephen Miron Trustee 31 May 2018– Group chief executive of Global (to chairman 2025). Previously MD, Mail on Sunday / MailOnline. First term 5 years.
Emma Bradley Trustee 31 May 2018 – 18 May 2023 Original first-term trustee (5 years). Signed early reports. Member of Global Academy with Tabor-King and Miron (see related parties).
Sally Cairns Trustee 17 February 2023– Global HR. Also trustee of Global Charities.
Sebastian Enser-Wight Trustee 17 February 2023– Global group executive. (2024 accounts spell the surname “Enser-Wright” once; later filings and the Commission register use Enser-Wight.)

Minimum three trustees; later appointments are three-year terms.[1][3][5]

Related-party grant: Global Academy

Year to 5 April 2023 the Foundation committed £1,134,600 to Global Academy UTC Trust Limited (shown as payable at year end; cleared the following year). Note 12:

“Three of the Foundation's Trustees, namely Ashley Tabor King, Stephen Miron and Emma Bradley (who resigned as a Trustee on 18 May 2023) are members of the Global Academy, who the Foundation committed to make a £1,134,600 donation to in the year. The Trustee minutes confirm that the above Trustees were excluded from the decision whether to donate to the Global Academy.”[3]

The same wording is repeated in the 2024 accounts for the prior-year gift. The 2025 related-party note says there were no connected-party transactions that year.[4][5]

Same year: £200,000 to Baker Dearing Educational Trust (UTC umbrella). Legal fees in support costs: £14,088 (2023), £7,578 (2024), £8,974 (2025).[3][5]

Grants paid or payable

Named grants in note 4, years ended 5 April.

Recipient Charity no. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Named total
Baker Dearing Educational Trust 1138894 — — — — 200,000 — — 200,000
Global Academy UTC Trust Limited (academy trust) — — — — 1,134,600 — — 1,134,600
London's Air Ambulance 801013 — — — — — — 1,000,000 1,000,000
The Police Arboretum Memorial Trust 1159831 — — 300,000 — — — — 300,000
The Royal Foundation 1132048 250,000 — 100,000 500,000 — — — 850,000
Taigh Mor Foundation 1184933 — 300,000 — 20,000 — 350,000 — 670,000
Westminster Synagogue 1133190 — 25,000 — — — — — 25,000
Note 4 total 250,000 325,000 400,000 520,000 1,334,600 350,000 1,000,000 4,179,600

Royal Foundation: trustees pledged up to £850,000; £250,000 paid 2019, £100,000 2021, £500,000 2022 — pledge completed. London Air Ambulance: deed of gift signed 30 April 2024 (post 2023/24 year-end), paid in the year to 5 April 2025.[1][6][4][5]

Taigh Mor Foundation (also OSCR SC050487) funds mental health / resilience for Crown armed-forces personnel, other Crown servants who have “protected the country’s national and international interests,” and families.[7]

Westminster Synagogue (1133190), Kent House, Knightsbridge — independent Reform congregation. One grant, £25,000, year to 5 April 2020. Objects on the register are worship, study and related religious charity. It is the only synagogue line in these notes.[8]

Global, LBC and Israel / Gaza

The Foundation does not fund LBC. Control is the same: Tabor-King founded Global; Allen and Miron are Global directors and Foundation trustees; Cairns and Enser-Wight are Global staff put on the charity in 2023; the charity’s principal office is Global’s building at 29–30 Leicester Square — the same headquarters later picketed over LBC output.[1][9]

Ofcom, 2021

May 2021: Ofcom found LBC News in breach of due accuracy and offence after a reporter called the Israeli Embassy the “Jewish Embassy” nine times during coverage of London protests after Gaza airstrikes.[10]

Sangita Myska, April–May 2024

Sangita Myska hosted LBC’s weekend 13:00–16:00 phone-in from June 2022 (the former Maajid Nawaz slot). On 14 April 2024 she interviewed Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman after Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel. She put to him that Tehran framed the attack as retaliation for Israel’s 1 April strike on the Iranian consular compound in Damascus; Hyman called the framing “outrageous.” LBC kept the interview on its YouTube channel.[11][12]

She did not present the following weekend. Ali Miraj filled the slot. LBC said nothing until 1 May 2024, when senior managing editor Tom Cheal announced a “refreshed weekend schedule”: Myska was “leaving the station at the end of her contract, after nearly two years.” Vanessa Feltz was hired for Saturday 15:00–18:00. There was no on-air farewell. Contemporary reports said the remaining contracted episodes (later given as 16) were not used.[11][13]

A Change.org petition started 22 April 2024 by listener David Noble passed ~25,000 signatures by the 1 May announcement and was reported at close to 40,000 by late May. More than 100 media figures signed an open letter of concern (ITV’s James Mates, Charlotte Church, Zarah Sultana among them). Global insiders told Deadline the cause was a weekend refresh and falling hourly figures; the same piece recorded that RAJAR for her last published book showed reach up 12.5 per cent to 465,000. O’Brien on-air attributed presenter survival to ratings. Myska later said the same book, and later figures, showed growth past half a million. LBC published no numbers to support the “falling hours” line.[12][14][15]

In August 2026 Myska told Double Down News that she was taken off air within 48 hours of the Hyman interview; that a wide non-disparagement clause limited what she could say about Global; and that Global solicitors monitored her social-media replies to listeners. She called the episode “institutional cowardice.” That is her account. Global’s public line remains schedule refresh and end of contract. No regulator finding ties the sacking to the interview.[16][17]

Natasha Devon, April 2024

Weekend presenter Natasha Devon told a caller on 27 April 2024 that there were “conflicting stories” and “some academics who are saying that there is absolutely no evidence that any sexual assaults took place” on 7 October 2023. After complaints she apologised on X, said the commentary she had relied on was “erroneous,” accepted UN and survivor evidence of rape, undertook to repeat the apology on air, and donated that show’s fee to Diaspora Alliance. She kept the slot.[18][19]

James O’Brien, July 2025

On 22 July 2025 James O'Brien read, as “objectivity,” an unverified listener email from “Chris” claiming that at “Shabbat school in a leafy Hertfordshire town” Jewish children were taught “one Jewish life is worth thousands of Arab lives and that Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed.” LBC posted then deleted a clip. The Board of Deputies of British Jews called the remarks a “transparent falsehood,” asked for a meeting with executives, and said LBC “should apologise, and take Mr O’Brien off the air.” CST and others used “modern blood libel.” Hertfordshire PCC Jonathan Ash-Edwards wrote to Cheal asking whether O’Brien would be suspended. O’Brien apologised the next day for taking “unsubstantiated claims at face value.” LBC took no further action. Campaigners picketed Global, Leicester Square, the following week.[20][21][22]

The Foundation’s grant book remains first-responder, academy and royal-foundation money plus one £25,000 synagogue gift. The editorial fights sit in the same company and the same building.

Finances

Incoming donations (note 2) plus Gift Aid where shown: 2019 £255,000; 2020 £335,000 + £83,750 Gift Aid; later years as on the Commission register. Support costs are examiners / audit / legal, not grants.

5 Apr 2021 5 Apr 2022 5 Apr 2023 5 Apr 2024 5 Apr 2025
Total gross income (register) £475.50k £500.00k £1.24m £1.36m £112.42k
Total expenditure (register) £407.41k £527.16k £1.36m £375.85k £1.02m

Contact

The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation
c/o Global Media & Entertainment Ltd
29–30 Leicester Square
London WC2H 7LA

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation, Financial Statements, period ended 5 April 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Full print, Charity Commission 1178634.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2023.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2024.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2025.
  6. ↑ Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2022.
  7. ↑ TAIGH MOR FOUNDATION, Charity Commission 1184933.
  8. ↑ WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE, Charity Commission 1133190.
  9. ↑ ‘It's open season on the Jewish community’ say protestors outside LBC office, Jewish Chronicle, 31 July 2025.
  10. ↑ Lee Harpin, Ofcom finds LBC radio ‘broke broadcast rules’, Jewish News, 13 June 2022.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Sangita Myska leaves LBC two weeks after fiery Israel interview, The Independent, 1 May 2024.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Jake Kanter, Sangita Myska Unlikely To Return To Global's LBC, Deadline, 30 April 2024.
  13. ↑ Sangita Myska, Wikipedia.
  14. ↑ Over 100 media personalities sign open letter, ITV News, 9 May 2024.
  15. ↑ Petition update, Change.org, 30 May 2024.
  16. ↑ THE ISRAEL INTERVIEW MEDIA WANT TO BAN, Double Down News, 11 August 2026.
  17. ↑ Sangita Myska calls out “institutional cowardice”, The Canary, 11 August 2026.
  18. ↑ Eliana Jordan, LBC presenter Natasha Devon apologises for denying Hamas rapes, Jewish Chronicle, 1 May 2024.
  19. ↑ LBC presenter sorry for querying Hamas rapes, Jewish News, 1 May 2024.
  20. ↑ Board calls for LBC’s James O’Brien to be taken off air, Jewish Chronicle, 23 July 2025.
  21. ↑ James O’Brien apologises, Jewish News, 23 July 2025.
  22. ↑ Hertfordshire police commissioner demands LBC suspend O’Brien, Jewish News, 24 July 2025.
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