THE LORD MAYOR'S 800TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS TRUST

Registered charity 800504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grants are made to young people, from all walks of life, aged between 17 and 24 for education in its widest sense including travel, adventure and special training. Priority is given to applicants with connections with the City of London.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME OF THE PERMANENT ENDOWMENT AND THE INCOME OF THE REMAINDER OF THE TRUST FUND (SUBJECT TO ANY EXPRESS CONDITIONS IMPOSED) TO OR TOWARDS THE FURTHERANCE OF THE EDUCATION IN ITS WIDEST CONTEXT OF YOUNG PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 17 YEARS WHO HAVE NOT ATTAINED THE AGE OF 25 YEARS SELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER LONDON AREA

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: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased in value to £1,879,770, with unrestricted income of £56,393 and unrestricted reserves of £35,746. Per the trustees' report, the charity incurred an operating deficit on unrestricted income and expenditure of £12,494, utilizing unrestricted income held from previous years to fund grants. The trustees confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern, noting accumulated unspent income from the pandemic period intended for expenditure over the next three years.

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 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alderman Professor Michael Raymond Mainelli Ch FCSIchair
• ALASTAIR COLLETT LLB · trustee of 7 other charities
• Andrew Paul Cooper
• Elizabeth Corrin
• JOHN BENNETT MBE
• MAGGIE DONNELLY
• Nicholas Royle
• Professor Ian David Lockhart Bogle
• SIMON D'OLIER DUCKWORTH OBE DL VR

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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• THORNTON-SMITH AND PLEVINS TRUST income £458k
• THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL income £3.0m
• THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST income £79k
• OUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £239k
• THE MAYOR OF LONDON'S FUND FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £878k
• ALDERMAN NEWTON'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £197k

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