THE WEAVERS' COMPANY BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 266189 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Currently supports projects working with young people at risk of offending or with the rehabilitation of those who have offended, supports the woven textile industry through grants and scholarships and assists three local primary schools in Inner London

Objects

FOR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE WEAVERS COMPANY MAY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · 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 FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £14,911,894, with £14.9m readily expendable at the Trustee’s discretion. The Trustee believes the current level of reserves is broadly in line with the long-term strategy to maintain sufficient investment returns to meet obligations to beneficiaries. The charity reported a net expenditure of £588,031 for the year, largely offset by investment gains of £535,942.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haysmacintyre 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BAILIFFS WARDENS AND ASSISTANTS OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF WEAVERS

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 THE HON E W C WELD-FORESTER WILL TRUST.

• THE HON E W C WELD-FORESTER WILL TRUST income £50k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LAUNDERERS BENEVOLENT TRUST FUND income £36k
• THE WAREHOUSE TRUST income £95k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF BUILDERS' MERCHANTS CHARITABLE FUND income £89k
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS income £99k
• WEAVERS, FULLERS AND SHEARMEN CHARITIES LIMITED income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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