THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL

Registered charity 1148976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To hold fundraising events and encourage philanthropy in the City of London and donate the proceeds to beneficiaries for Health, Young People, Culture, Sport, Community Development, The Armed Forces and similar Public Services.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £656,534 at the year end, which is above the stated reserves policy target of the lower of £25,000 or 1.5% of net funds raised. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(218,719) for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Lord Mayor's Appeal (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley DBE — The Rt Hon The Lady Mayor of the City of London (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Aon — “With huge thanks to our current funding partners: Corporate partners Aon” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 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 (62% 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: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALASTAIR JOHN NAISBITT KING · trustee of 3 other charities
• Alderman Timothy Russell Hailes · trustee of 3 other charities
• Bronislaw Masojada · trustee of 2 other charities
• Edward Charles Braham
• Lidia Bozhevolnaya
• Sir David Wootton
• Tangy Cathleen Morgan

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LONDON.

• THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LONDON income £2.9m
• WIRRAL MAYORS CHARITY income £113k
• THE MAYOR OF LONDON'S FUND FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £878k
• THE MAYOR OF WIGAN'S CHARITY APPEAL income £105k
• CREATE SPACE LONDON income £132k
• LORD MAYOR OF MANCHESTER'S CHARITY APPEAL TRUST income £413k

Side by side with its peers

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