CITY OF LONDON FREEMEN'S SCHOOL BURSARY FUND

Registered charity 284769 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY OF LONDON FREEMEN'S SCHOOL BURSARY AND PRIZE FUND

The aims of the City of London Freemen's School Bursary Fund are to contribute towards the fees payable to the school by pupils who would be unable to continue education at the school without financial assistance or who would be unable to commence education at the school despite being accepted.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING PHYSICAL TRAINING) BY THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES AND OTHER FORMS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FEES AND/OR OTHER COSTS INCURRED THROUGH ATTENDANCE AT THE SCHOOL TO ENABLE PUPILS TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOL BY FOR EXAMPLE PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE WHO(1) WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ENTER THE SCHOOL HAVING BEEN ACCEPTED; OR(2) HAVING COMMENCED EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOL WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOL.

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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Registered contact address: Mole Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £259,481, which is above the stated minimum policy target of £10,000. The charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £21,004 for the year, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income and investment gains.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 08/05/2023, 97 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• City of London Corporation · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUILD OF FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF LONDON'S CHARITY.

• GUILD OF FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF LONDON'S CHARITY income £52k
• CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £167k
• CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL FUND income £28k
• FREEMEN'S SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 2012 income £68k
• SIR WILLIAM BOREMAN'S FOUNDATION income £157k
• THE BOLTON SCHOOL BURSARY FOUNDATION income £11.9m

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