THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LONDON

Registered charity 1124833 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mayor's Fund for London is a non-politically aligned, independent charity which champions opportunities for young Londoners from low-income backgrounds. We deliver impactful programmes which help to safeguard and transform the life chances of young Londoners by supporting them with access to food, wellbeing, education and employment opportunities. The Mayor of London is our Patron.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £23,660 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £2,318,277. The trustees confirm that unrestricted free reserves were £323,868, which is above the stated policy target of £210,000, and the auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Former chief of Mayor's Fund for London elected as Brexit Party MEP thirdsector.co.uk · 28/05/2019

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06621189
• Trading subsidiary: MFFL SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 09753703 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mayor's Fund for London (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• NELKEN, Rachel Dina — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• BHAM, Azhar Mohammed — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• HALE, Megan Rebecca — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• CREARY, Natalie — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• SAVAGE, Aderonke Matilda, Dr — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• DALMAN, Mehmet — director, appointed 26/09/2017on trustee list
• HALPERN PRINCE, Jennifer Ann — director, appointed 13/06/2017not on trustee list
• LIVINGSTONE, Ian Malcolm — director, appointed 14/02/2013not on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Timothy Henry Raynes — director, appointed 04/12/2008on trustee list
• MINTON, James — secretary, appointed 17/06/2025

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natalie Crearychair
• Azhar Mohammed Bham
• Dr Aderonke Savage
• Jennifer Halpern Prince
• Megan Rebecca Hale
• Mehmet Dalman
• Rachel Dina Nelken
• TIMOTHY ROBERTS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Foundation For Future London.

• Foundation For Future London income £1.5m
• SAFER LONDON income £3.4m
• THE MAYOR OF LONDON'S FUND FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £878k
• THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL income £3.0m
• CENTRE FOR LONDON income £645k
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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