COOPERS CHARITY CIO

Registered charity 1155094 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Payments to selected charitable organisations, mainly within the City of London area. Continues to support grantees of the company and assists individuals who have been referred by welfare services within London. Support of the Coopers and Coborn School, their Educational Foundation and Strode's College. Makes payments to widows of the Company. Supports City of London charities.

Objects

3. OBJECTSTHE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO MAKE GRANTS FOR THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY DETERMINE: -(1) TO ASSIST PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA, THE COUNTY OF SURREY AND MEMBERS OF THE COOPERS’ COMPANY, THEIR WIDOWS AND DEPENDENTS;(2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION & LEARNING GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO THE TRADE OF COOPERAGE AND AMONG PUPILS OF THE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATED WITH COOPERS, NAMELY THE COOPERS’ COMPANY AND COBURN SCHOOL AND STRODE'S COLLEGE(3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION & LEARNING IN RELATION TO THE COOPERS’ COMPANY AND COOPERS’ HALL AND ITS HISTORICAL ARTEFACTS, RECORDS AND ARCHIVE INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC ACCESS;(4) TO MAINTAIN AND PRESERVE THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE AND TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC'S EDUCATION AND LEARNING OF THE ANCIENT TRADE OF COOPERAGE; (5) THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT OF COOPERS' HALL, 13, DEVONSHIRE SQUARE, LONDON EC2M 4TH AND ITS IMMEDIATE ENVIRONS, AND THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF ARTEFACTS AND ITEMS OF HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST OR MERIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HISTORICAL ARTEFACTS, RECORDS AND ARCHIVE OF THE COOPERS' COMPANY; AND(6) TO SUPPORT SUCH OTHER GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE(7) NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Area of benefit: IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA, THE COUNTY OF SURREY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · 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 FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income increase of £361,038 to £478,989, driven by significant investment gains of £587,782. Free reserves decreased from £329,462 to £236,264, though the trustees state this remains in line with their policy to cover six months' expenditure. The charity has no employees and relies on administrative support from The Worshipful Company of Coopers.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan John Roberts
• Anthony Miller MBE
• Camilla Szymanowska · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Philip Breiner
• IAN DAVID LUDER CBE
• Jason Paul Essenhigh
• Julian Day
• Piers Llewelyn Jones
• Sushil Saluja

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

Operates in: Essex · Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

• THE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £753k
• COOPER ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION income £27k
• COOPER ART COLLECTION income £41k
• CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION income £3.6m
• THE KOBLER TRUST income £86k
• MABEL COOPER CHARITY income £314k

Side by side with its peers

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