FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 263690 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A grant-giving trust which supports charitable organisations, predominantly operating in and around the City of London. The Trust continues to offer support to a number of longstanding beneficiaries in the advancement of education and the prevention and relief of hardship. Other multi-year grants awarded are in the fields of food & nutrition, mental health and education in prisons.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust is financially independent of its Corporate Trustee, with unrestricted reserves of £2,857k and total funds of £33,915k. The auditor confirmed the appropriateness of the going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. The Trust spent £3,369k on charitable activities in 2025, funded by investment income and the sale of expendable endowment assets.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fishmongers' Company's Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fred Stroyan — Chair of the Fish & Fisheries Committee (source)
• Andrew Wallace — Fisheries Director (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): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (78% 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: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Fitzalan Howard · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Fishmongers' Company · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S FISHERIES CHARITABLE TRUST.

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Side by side with its peers

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