THE GROCERS' CHARITY

Registered charity 255230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Grocers' Charity is the charitable arm of the Grocers' Company, a City of London Livery Company. The Charity is a grant-awarding body to UK registered charities working in designated areas of need that encompasses education, the Church, the relief of poverty, support for the arts, heritage, young people, medicine, environment and those with disabilities.

Objects

FOR SOME CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES BEING A QUALIFIED CHARITY TO THE INTENT THAT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES SHALL BE ADVANCED IN SUCH MANNER BY THE TRUSTEES AS SHALL BE PRESCRIBED IN SUCH DEED OR IN ANY RULES OR REGULATIONS MADE THEREUNDER

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased by 2.4% to £38,609,903, with unrestricted reserves standing at £392,952. The trustees report that the charity has sufficient assets to continue fulfilling its obligations for the long term, noting no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Small grants of up to £5k available via The Grocers' Charity - Wired-Gov wired-gov.net · 01/06/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Grocers' Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (67% 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: 16.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GROCERS' TRUST COMPANY LIMITED (THE)

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 THE COMPANY OF ARTS SCHOLARS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE COMPANY OF ARTS SCHOLARS CHARITABLE TRUST income £253k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BUTCHERS GENERAL CHARITIES income £64k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF PLAISTERERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £125k
• CURRIERS COMPANY CHARITABLE FUND income £68k
• THE FRUITERERS' FOUNDATION income £58k
• THE GEORGE GOODSIR CHARITABLE TRUST income £156k

Side by side with its peers

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