THE CIVIL SERVICE BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 1136870 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHARITY FOR CIVIL SERVANTS · also registered in Scotland as SC041956 (OSCR)

The Charity provides grants in money or kind, either directly or to an organisation that will provide relief from suffering, hardship or distress, financial or otherwise. The Charity's prime beneficiaries are Civil Servants, former Civil Servants, Public Body Employees or former Public Body Employees, and their dependants.

Objects

For the public benefit, to relieve from suffering, hardship or distress (whether financial or otherwise), and to promote and sustain the wellbeing of Civil Servants, former Civil Servants, Public Body Employees or former Public Body Employees, employees and former employees of the Charity (and any predecessor organisation of it) and their dependants including without limitation by: i. offering lifelong practical, financial and emotional support, advice and guidance; ii. providing direct support to individuals, using other available channels to enable civil service communities to connect and support each other, and collaborating with other organisations.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity recorded an operational deficit of £1.8m in 2025, a reduction from the previous year's £2.8m, while total income increased to £5.6m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £25.3m, which is slightly above the stated policy target range of £20.0m to £25.0m. The Trustees confirmed there are 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 HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 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).

• Civil Service Benevolent Fund changes name to the Charity for Civil Servants thirdsector.co.uk · 21/05/2012

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~41.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanna Shanmugalingamchair
• Alban Stowe
• Amrita Brember
• Angela MACDONALD
• Anne Spinali
• Dr Catherine Blair
• Hannah Riley
• Jerome Glass
• Lorraine Jackson
• Luke John Treadwell
• Malini Nebhrajani · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Jonathan Smith
• Oak Watson
• Sonia Clare Phippard

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CSIS CHARITY FUND.

• CSIS CHARITY FUND income £266k
• THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT FELLOWSHIP income £367k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• PERSHORE AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £143k
• THE LONGFORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £143k
• GC FOUNDATION income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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