ST ANDREW HOLBORN AND STAFFORD'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1095045 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ANDREW HOLBORN CHARITY

Relief in need within a defined geographical area in Holborn

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE RELIEF EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY OF THE BENEFICIARIES RESIDENT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF BENEFIT;(1) THE ANCIENT PARISH OF ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN;(2) THE PARISHES OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR AND ST GEORGE BLOOMSBURY;(3) THE PARISH OF ST PANCRAS AND THAT PART OF THE PARISH OF HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET WHICH IS TO THE SOUTH OF EUSTON ROAD; AND(4) THE CITY OF LONDON AND THAT PART OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF ST. ANDREW HOLBORN OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF THE CITY.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON - HOLBORN

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 holds substantial unrestricted reserves of £4,633,161, with £4,475,906 available for general use after designated amounts. The trustees report that they maintain sufficient reserves to meet expected future commitments and provide contingency against unforeseen needs, supported by a large endowment portfolio. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,000 - £70,000 (FY2023) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~75.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BISHOP OF FULHAMchair · trustee of 8 other charities
• DAVID BALLANCE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jeremy Lewis Simons OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nasim Ali OBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Neil Anderson
• Paul Nicholas Martinelli CC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Silas Weston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW SMITH · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Camden · City Of London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE STUART HALBERT FOUNDATION.

• THE STUART HALBERT FOUNDATION income £210k
• PARISH ESTATES CHARITY income £24k
• THE J AND D HAMBRO CHARITABLE TRUST income £34k
• JOHN HOLFORD'S CHARITY income £740k
• THE A. H. TRUST income £359k
• SHELDONIA CHARITABLE TRUST income £97k

Side by side with its peers

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