THE TOBACCO PIPE MAKERS AND TOBACCO TRADE BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 1135646 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a grant-making charity, focusing on: the advancement of education; the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science; the relief of those in need because of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; charities with stong links to the City of London Livery movement; and charities relating to current or former members of the Armed Services.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased significantly to £4,446,787 due to the transfer of the Welfare and Bernhard Baron funds to the National Grocers Benevolent Fund. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,281,558 and maintains cash reserves equivalent to 50-75% of one year's giving to mitigate investment volatility. The independent auditors 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 TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tobacco Pipe Makers Benevolent Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Trade Benevolent Fund — “Our members donate to The Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Trade Benevolent Fund (Charity no. 1135646), which is the vehicle for our charitab…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~90.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (57% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Louis Merton
• Jonathan Fell
• Judith Donovan CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laurent Charbonnier
• Marie Adelaide Grizella Cooper
• Nicola Snook
• Roger Jason Brookes
• Sharon Claire Taberer
• Susan Patricia Curran

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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