THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 326340 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making programmes for:1. Young People and Education;2. Older People and Housing;3. Church and Communities.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION DECIDE.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 Charity generated a net income of £2,676,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted net assets of £38,032,000. The Charity relies on annual donations from its Trustee, the Mercers' Company, and the Trustee has confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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 handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Mercers' Charitable Foundation invests a further £1m in Charity Bank thirdsector.co.uk · 08/04/2015

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Clerk — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~43.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Mercers' 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MERCER FOUNDATION.

• THE MERCER FOUNDATION income £259k
• Mercer Family Charitable Foundation income £400k
• MERCERS' COMPANY HOUSING ASSOCIATION income £858k
• COVENANT OF MERCY LTD income £772k
• MERCERS' SCHOOL MEMORIAL TRUST (INCORPORATING THE MERRETT BEQUEST) income £72k
• MEHR CULTURAL FOUNDATION income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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