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.

Objects

FURTHERING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE,IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS FOR:1)THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS,THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OF PEOPLE AND THE SAVING OF LIVES,WHETHER RESIDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE;2)THE CONSERVATION,PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;3)THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH EDUCATION AND OTHER MEANS;4)THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY;5)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS,CULTURE,HERITAGE AND SCIENCE;6)THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;7)THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT;8)THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH,AGE,ILL-HEALTH,DISABILITY,FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE;AND 9)THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN OR OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE,FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES OR AMBULANCE SERVICES.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £321,062 for the year, with total income of £2,987,120 and total expenditure of £2,666,058. The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £283,841, with total net assets of £792,913. The trustees confirmed that the group has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sedulo Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £150,001 - £160,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 47.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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

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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 LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS APPEAL FUND.

• LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS APPEAL FUND income £88k
• LORD MAYOR OF MANCHESTER'S CHARITY APPEAL TRUST income £413k
• KINGDOM FELLOWSHIP income £63k
• THE LORD MAYOR OF BIRMINGHAM'S CHARITY income £59k
• MAYOR OF FELIXSTOWE CHARITY FUND income £50k
• HIS CHURCH - LONDON income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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