The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation
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 office is Global’s Leicester Square building.
Documented LBC rows on Israel/Palestine:
- 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 London protest coverage after Gaza airstrikes.[9]
- From 2023, James O'Brien and others have used UN / aid-agency language on Gaza, including genocidal acts; O’Brien has said he is routinely accused of antisemitism for stating those facts. The Jewish Chronicle and campaigners including Dov Forman have accused the same programmes of Hamas framing and, in July 2025, of airing a listener letter they called a blood libel (LBC promoted then deleted a clip).[10]
Those are editorial fights inside the group that houses the Foundation. They are not charity programmes. The grant book is first-responder, academy and royal-foundation money plus one £25,000 synagogue gift.
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
- Global Media & Entertainment
- LBC
- Global Charities
- Global Academy
- Taigh Mor Foundation
- Westminster Synagogue
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation, Financial Statements, period ended 5 April 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Full print, Charity Commission 1178634.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2024.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2025.
- ↑ Financial Statements, year ended 5 April 2022.
- ↑ TAIGH MOR FOUNDATION, Charity Commission 1184933.
- ↑ WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE, Charity Commission 1133190.
- ↑ Lee Harpin, Ofcom finds LBC radio ‘broke broadcast rules’, Jewish News, 13 June 2022.
- ↑ From Lammy to LBC, Jewish Chronicle, 23 July 2025.