THE VINTNERS' FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1015212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST MARTINS TRUST, THE VINTNERS COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Assist charities concerned with relief of the poor, destitute and homeless in Greater London.Assist charities concerned with treating the social effects of alcohol.Support young people, youth projects and designated educational establishments in London.Support certain other charities, as put forward by Liverymen of the Vintners' Company.Assist other charitable causes as agreed by trustees.

Objects

• Assist charities concerned with the relief of the poor, destitute and homeless in Greater London who are disadvantaged by reasons of health, education or poverty.• Assist charities concerned with treating the social effects of alcohol and substance abuse.• Assist charities concerned with mental health issues.• Support young people, youth projects and designated educational establishments in London.• The relief of persons in need in the following order of priority:- members of the Vintners’ Company and their dependents;- persons now or formerly engaged in the wine trade and/or spirits trade and their dependents; - such other persons in need of assistance as the Charity shall in its absolute discretion think fit.• Support certain other charities, as put forward by Liverymen of the Vintners' Company.• Assist other charitable causes which the Trustee may, from time to time, see fit.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £221,791 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by unrealised investment losses of £498,437. Despite this deficit, the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £4,085,781, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet ongoing commitments and exceed their policy target of three months of charitable expenditure. The charity is fully supported by the Vintners' Company for administrative services and receives significant annual donations from them.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Vintners' Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE VINTNERS COMPANY

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DISTILLERS' CHARITY.

• THE DISTILLERS' CHARITY income £539k
• THE VINE COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £186k
• HASLERS' FOUNDATION income £44k
• VINCI UK FOUNDATION income £277k
• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• GRAPEVINE (COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE) LTD income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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