ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY

Registered charity 1156305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity works to transform the lives of homeless people across the UK through providing funding to help people into new homes, supporting frontline workers and investing in and advocating new solutions to homelessness.The Charity incorporates the former St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal Charity (charity no. 261359) which formally merged with it on 15th April 2026

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

Latest income

£5.2m

Latest spending

£6.2m

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £5,169,871 while total expenditure was £6,188,713, resulting in a net movement in funds of £(1,018,842). The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £1,895,000 satisfy their policy target of maintaining between three and six months of unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs and employer national insurance) during the year between: £80,001 - £90,000 1” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Largest income source: Donations (80% of income)

“Donations £4,162,346”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Fundraising cost ratio: 32.9% of fundraised income, as disclosed

“The cost of raising donations and legacies in this year was £1,700,799 (2023/24: £1,601,368).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three to six months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £1.9m)

“The Board of Trustees considers it prudent to maintain a sum equivalent to between three and six months of unrestricted expenditure for the following budget year”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grant to The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields, which shares one trustee with the charity.

“The Charity has one Trustee in common with The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields. This is a charity that received a grant of £800,000 from St Martin-in the-Fields Charity (2024: £800,000).” — page 21

“The Charity has one Trustee who is an employee of Cyrenians (Edinburgh). Cyrenians are a partner organisation that received a grant payment of £45,000 from St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity (2024: £45,000).” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grant to Cyrenians, which employs one trustee.

“The Charity has one Trustee in common with The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields. This is a charity that received a grant of £800,000 from St Martin-in the-Fields Charity (2024: £800,000).” — page 21

“The Charity has one Trustee who is an employee of Cyrenians (Edinburgh). Cyrenians are a partner organisation that received a grant payment of £45,000 from St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity (2024: £45,000).” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Governance: The charity reported being subject to fraud by an external party regarding fraudulent emergency grant applications.

“During the year we identified that we had been subject to fraud by an external party who had made fraudulent applications to us for emergency grants.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Julia Rausing Trust gives £1 million grant to St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity fundraising.co.uk · 29/01/2026

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Duncan Shrubsole — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Jane West — Director of Income & Engagement (source)
Angela D’Souza — Chief People & Operations Officer (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£5.2m

Total spending

£6.2m

Cost of raising funds

£1.7m

Reserves (reported)

£1.9m

Employees

26

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 32.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (15/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (16/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (05/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Mark Devlinchair
Carol Hilsum
Caroline Cook
Jonathan Manuel
Julian Worricker
Keith Leslie · trustee of 1 other charity
Michelle Cornes · trustee of 1 other charity
Myles Edwards
REV SAM WELLS · trustee of 1 other charity
Victoria Hill

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£5.2m	£6.2m
31/03/2024	£5.2m	£6.7m
31/03/2023	£5.7m	£5.0m
31/03/2022	£5.2m	£5.0m
31/03/2021	£6.3m	£4.9m

Common questions

Is ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income was £5,169,871 while total expenditure was £6,188,713, resulting in a net movement in funds of £(1,018,842). The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £1,895,000 satisfy their policy target of maintaining between three and six months of unrestricted expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band.

Who funds ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY as a grant recipient include THE JULIA RAUSING TRUST, THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST, SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST, THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JULIA RAUSING TRUST	FY2025	£1.0m	VRF (Vicars Relief Fund)
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£851k	Advancement of religion
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£50k	Redevelopment of bathrooms at Connection Day Centre
SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£4k	Advancement of poverty
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£500

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE FRIENDS OF THE CONNECTION AT ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS	1	£1.1m
THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION	1	£150k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£71k
THE LINBURY TRUST	1	£60k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	1	£50k
SCOULOUDI FOUNDATION	1	£47k
ALICE ROUGHTON FOUNDATION	1	£29k
HOMELESS LINK	1	£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS TRUST.

ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS TRUST income £2.1m
THE FRIENDS OF THE CONNECTION AT ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS income £144k
THE CONNECTION AT ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS income £6.4m
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, LONDON income £8.4m
JOHN MARTIN'S CHARITY income £1.1m
FIELDS CHURCH income £117k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHARITY	£5.2m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	within	32.9%	no doubt
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS TRUST FY2025	£2.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRIENDS OF THE CONNECTION AT ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS FY2025	£144k	—	0	unclear	19.0%	no doubt
THE CONNECTION AT ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS FY2025	£6.4m	—	—	unclear	11.7%	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, LONDON FY2024	£8.4m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
JOHN MARTIN'S CHARITY FY2026	£1.1m	—	—	above	—	no doubt

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