TRUST FOR LONDON

Registered charity 205629 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q111686405 · 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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(1) FOR THE CENTRAL FUND: ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES, OTHER THAN THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, WHICH ARE DIRECTED TO THE BENEFIT OF POOR INHABITANTS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT; AND (2) FOR THE CITY CHURCH FUND: THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION BY(A) THE REPAIR, RESTORATION OR PRESERVATION OF THE FABRIC AND CONTENTS OF THE CHURCHES AND THE MAINTENANCE OF SERVICES THEREIN;(B) THE AUGMENTATION OF CLERICAL STIPENDS;(C) GIVING THEOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION TO PERSONS PREPARING FOR HOLY ORDERS;(D) EXTENDING THE BENEFIT OF CLERICAL OR SPIRITUAL MINISTRATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OR BY THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS BY THE LAW ESTABLISHED IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE AREA WITHIN THE OUTER BOUNDARY OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT EXTANT AT 18 APRIL 1989.

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

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

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

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

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

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Grants manager poverty premium (maternity cover) — £60,970 per annum (pro rated £30,485 for 17.5 hours per week to £36,582 for 21 hours per week) · London (Hybrid) · posted 3 weeks ago (seen 04/11/2026)

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 (3.7%) (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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED.

• THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED income £808k
• TRUSTEES OF THE LONDON CLINIC LIMITED income £196.1m
• LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.3m
• CENTRE FOR LONDON income £645k
• THE TRUST FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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