THE LIVERPOOL MERCHANTS' GUILD

Registered charity 206454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve individuals who have been a professional or self employed person, a person who worked in a supervisory capacity, or a clerical or non manual worker and their dependents who are residing in Merseyside or who have so resided for a continuous period of not less than 15 years who are not less than 50 years of age and who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,667,444, which the trustees consider to be approximately 51 months of expenditure against a policy target of 12 months. The charity is funded primarily by investment income of £1,491,287, which substantially covered charitable expenditure of £1,118,818, resulting in a net income increase of £3,089,627 for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• R.J. Carter — Trustee (source)
• S.T Chapple-Gill — Trustee (source)
• G. Ferrigno — Trustee (source)
• A.T. Morris — Trustee (source)
• L. Downey — Trustee (source)
• D. Bailey — Trustee (source)
• C. Lewis-Jones — Trustee (source)
• W.M.T. Roberts — Trustee (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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~55.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 15.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT JOHN CARTERchair
• ANDREW THOMAS MORRIS
• Catherine Gall
• Dr Catherine Lewis-Jones
• GILLIAN FERRIGNO
• LAWRENCE DOWNEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR DUNCAN BAILEY
• SANDY TIMOTHY CHAPPLE GILL
• William James Frazer Kingdon
• William Tudor Mansel Roberts

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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