The Merchant Taylors' Foundation

Registered charity 1161568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' COMPANY EDUCATION FUND

The Merchant Taylors' Foundation makes grants that target education, homelessness and projects to create positive lasting change to people's lives.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds amounted to £18,690,563, with unrestricted reserves of £855,665. The Trustees' reserves policy is that it is not necessary for the Charity to hold any free and liquid reserve in unrestricted or undesignated funds, a stance they consider appropriate due to the predictability of income streams and low level of multi-year commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir William Worsley Bt DL — Master (source)
• Mr Robert-Jan Temmink KC — Second Upper Warden (source)
• Mr Michael Cole-Fontayn — Upper Renter Warden (source)
• The Hon Richard Newall — Under Renter Warden (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (73% 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: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Eggarchair
• HARRY PARSHALL
• Jana Mackintosh
• Jane Hall
• Lissa Gillot
• Stephen Lawrence

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England

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 MERCHANT TAYLORS' CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.

• MERCHANT TAYLORS' CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES FOR THE POOR income £435k
• THE COMPANY OF MERCHANT TAYLORS OF THE CITY OF YORK income £120k
• MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
• THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION income £454k
• THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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