FORDHAM UNIVERSITY UK CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1040378 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARYMOUNT LONDON CENTRE, MLC CHARITABLE TRUST

The Fordham University UK Charitable Trust's (formerly MLC Charitable Trust) primary objective is to provide education for American college students in England and Europe and for such other charitable purposes as the Trustee may in its discretion think fit.

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Latest income

£7.2m

Latest spending

£7.2m

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £821,201, though the trustees' policy is not to maintain significant cash reserves as operations are financed through US tuition and fees. The financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern due to the intention to transfer assets to a new charitable company and close the trust.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: not to maintain any significant cash reserves (held: £821k)

“The Trust’s reserves policy is not to maintain any significant cash reserves in our bank account(s) as all our operations are financed through student tuition and fees paid in the US.” — page 11

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Tania Tetlow — President (source)
Matthew Holland — Senior Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income

£7.2m

Total spending

£7.2m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY (USA) UK PROGRAMS LTD

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£7.2m	£7.2m
30/06/2024	£6.7m	£6.5m
30/06/2023	£6.0m	£6.0m
30/06/2022	£5.5m	£5.2m
30/06/2021	£1.4m	£1.5m

Common questions

Is FORDHAM UNIVERSITY UK CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £821,201, though the trustees' policy is not to maintain significant cash reserves as operations are financed through US tuition and fees. The financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern due to the intention to transfer assets to a new charitable company and close the trust. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Price Bailey LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	£84k
CATKIN PUSSYWILLOW CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£39k
THE IMAM HUSSEIN FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FORD BRITAIN TRUST.

FORD BRITAIN TRUST income £128k
NYU IN LONDON income £44.4m
University of California Trust income £1.7m
COLUMBIA UK FUND LIMITED income £4.2m
UK FUND FOR CHARITIES income £4.6m
FAITHFUL COMPANIONS OF JESUS CIO income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY UK CHARITABLE TRUST	£7.2m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
FORD BRITAIN TRUST FY2025	£128k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NYU IN LONDON FY2025	£44.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
University of California Trust FY2025	£1.7m	£130,001 - £140,000	3	unclear	—	no doubt
COLUMBIA UK FUND LIMITED FY2024	£4.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
UK FUND FOR CHARITIES FY2025	£4.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.