THE DYERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 289547 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the Trust is to make grants to registered charities in support of a wide variety of charitable purposes. The Trust does not accept unsolicited applications, nor support individuals directly. The Trust invites applications for support only from charitable organisations which have been recommended by members of The Dyers Company.

Objects

THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT.

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 FY2024 accounts

The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £1,144,701, which the trustees consider sufficient to fulfill future plans. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Investment performance contributed significantly to the charity's financial position, with a net gain on investments of £1,329,628 reported for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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
• 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)

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

• Mike Mathieson — Prime Warden (Chairman of the Company) (source)
• Simon Cleaver — Renter Warden (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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Dyers' Company

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · 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 FARRER AND CO CHARITABLE TRUST.

• FARRER AND CO CHARITABLE TRUST income £102k
• THE ARTHUR RONALD DYER CHARITABLE TRUST income £56k
• THE DWEK FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k
• MYR CHARITABLE TRUST income £134k
• THE 3 TS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• CHARITIES TRUST income £74.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.