TRUST FOR LONDON

Registered charity 205629 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY PAROCHIAL FOUNDATION

We are a charitable organisation that exists to reduce poverty and inequality in London. We do this by funding the voluntary and community sector and others, as well as by using our own expertise and knowledge to support work that tackles poverty and its root causes.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's permanent endowment fell by £11.5m to £249m due to difficult market conditions, resulting in a net expenditure of £9.4m for the year. The trustees report that the endowment remains within their target corridor and that funds are sufficient to cover commitments through July 2027, with no material uncertainties affecting the going concern basis. The charity maintains a policy of not holding unrestricted reserves, relying instead on investment returns from its endowment to fund operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RESOURCE FOR LONDON Companies House 02676631
• Trading subsidiary: BELLINGHAM COMMUNITY PROJECT LIMITED Companies House 02773345

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Heather Taylor — Director of Finance (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): instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (72% 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: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TRUST FOR LONDON TRUSTEE

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE RESOLUTION TRUST.

• THE RESOLUTION TRUST income £842k
• THE CONSTANCE TRAVIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.3m
• THE EQUALITY TRUST income £430k
• BUILDING COMMUNITIES TRUSTEE LIMITED income £192k
• TS TRUST income £533k
• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £956k

Side by side with its peers

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