THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S FISHERIES CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 284888 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042845 (OSCR)

Supports the sustainable advancement of UK's seafood industry, freshwater and marine fish and their habitats. Under these programme areas, the Trust funds projects, grants, early-career sponsorship, research and convening. As part of the Fish Trade programme, the Trust supports work at Billingsgate Market concerned with quality, hygiene and inspection, and supports the Master Fishmonger Standard.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:- (A) FOR THE PURPOSE OF SURVEYING AND INSPECTING ALL FISH WHETHER FRESH OR SALT HERRING SALMONS STOCKFISH OR OTHER FISH WITHIN THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND CHEKING WHETHER THE SAME IS WHOLESOME OR FIT TO BE SOLD OR NOT AND FORFEITING, TAKING AND SEIZING ANY FISH AS AFORESAID WHICH IS BAD, CORRUPT OR UNFIT TO BE SOLD. (B) ADVANCING MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FISH AND SHELLFISH POISONING AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULT OF SUCH RESEARCH TO THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (C) PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY BY DISSEMINATING TO THE PUBLIC INFORMATION DIRECTED TO THE PREVENTION OF DISEASES ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE EATING OF FISH AND SHELLFISH. (D) COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING TO THE PUBLIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM USEFUL INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING FISH AND SHELLFISH.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · 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 the Trust held total unrestricted funds of £1,558k, with available free reserves (net current assets) of £307k. The Trustees anticipate a donation of £1.5m from the Fishmongers’ Company’s Charitable Trust in early 2026 to cover expenditure plans and future grant commitments, thereby avoiding the need to sell investments to meet cashflow needs.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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 ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

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: Scotland · 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 FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUST.

• FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.3m
• SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND COMMUNITIES TRUST income £952k
• THE FISHER CHARITABLE TRUST income £33k
• FISHING INTO THE FUTURE income £270k
• Fishmongers and Poulterers Charity income £32k
• QUEENBOROUGH FISHERY TRUST income £199k

Side by side with its peers

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