THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANS FUND

Registered charity 234787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To providing grants to necessitous orphans of members of the Metropolitan and City Police Officers to further their educational and welfare needs.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE BENEFICIARIES IN CASES OF NEED OR HARDSHIP.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF BENEFICIARIES IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TO INCLUDE EDUCATION AT SCHOOL, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATION OR TRAINING IN MUSIC OR THE ARTS.(3) TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF AND RELIEVE SICKNESS, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY AMONG BENEFICIARIES IN CASES OF NEED, BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN HEALTHY RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES(4) TO HELP THE BENEFICIARIES, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES, TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £30,834,226, which are maintained to meet capital requirements and support beneficiaries over long periods. The trustees report a net cash surplus of £223,990 for the year, driven by significant investment gains, although they note reliance on reserve income to fulfill charitable objectives as other sources are insufficient.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by George Hay & Company. Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (70% 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: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Davieschair
• Andrea O'Donnell
• GLEN SMYTH
• GRAHAM GILBERT
• Gavin Gaskain
• Helen Isaac
• Keith Malda
• Lisa Hayden
• Nicholas John
• Paula Dodds
• Stephen Charles
• Steven George

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with METROPOLITAN POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND.

• METROPOLITAN POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £2.0m
• 'CITY OF LONDON POLICE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND income £369k
• THE SHERIFFS' AND RECORDERS' FUND income £439k
• METROPOLITAN POLICE SPORTS FUND income £226k
• The Police Children's Charity income £1.3m
• THE SHRIMATI PUSHPA WATI LOOMBA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION income £229k

Side by side with its peers

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