METROPOLITAN POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 1125409 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides financial assistance to serving, retired and ex Metropolitan Police Officers and their dependants in need by way of a monetary grant or interest free loan. Also allows officers free access to Flint House, the Police Rehabilitation Centre in Goring, where necessary and supports the Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of income over expenditure of £543,190 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total net assets increasing to £4,155,681. The trustees confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the independent auditors regarding its ability to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bright Grahame Murray. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 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 (97% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ade Adelekan
• Clive Aplin
• Duncan Slade
• Gavin Gaskain
• Jonathan Osborne
• Matthew Cane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phil Van Tromp
• Rachel Walmsley
• Scott Reddy
• Steve George

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANS FUND.

• THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANS FUND income £1.2m
• WEST MIDLANDS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £323k
• METROPOLITAN POLICE SPORTS FUND income £226k
• 'CITY OF LONDON POLICE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND income £369k
• The Police Children's Charity income £1.3m
• THE NORTH WEST POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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