Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteers +5
    Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

    MERCERS' SCHOOL MEMORIAL TRUST (INCORPORATING THE MERRETT BEQUEST) 

    This is a grant making charity, you can view its grants here
    In furtherance of any charitable purpose (including but not limited to the advancement of education and the relief of need),
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
    • This charity uses a corporate trustee

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£19£17£2n/an/an/an/an/a84
    31/03/22£20£17£3n/an/an/an/an/a84
    31/03/21£13£11£2n/an/an/an/an/a38
    31/03/20£18£14£4n/an/an/an/an/a91
    31/03/19£18£13£5n/an/an/an/an/a86
    31/03/18£18£16£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£18£21£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£18£23£-5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£88£84£5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£16£13£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£14£15£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£14£16£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£17£12£5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£9£13£-4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£15£9£6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08?£13£13£0£0£0£0n/a00
    30/09/06£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
    30/09/05£7£5£2£0£0£0n/a00
    30/09/04£6£9£-3£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 22 years

    www.mercers.co.uk

    info@mercers.co.uk

    02077264991

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Grant-making foundations
    How it operates
    • Makes Grants to Individuals
    • Makes Grants to Organisations
    Where it operates
    • Throughout London,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 84 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (1)

    • The Mercers' Company
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/04/2002, number: 1091658
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity 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
    • 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
    Filing Record
    19 returns made; all on time
    Recent reorganisation events:
    • Asset transfer in from MSM TRUST on 16/08/2021
    Main office

    6 Frederick's Place
    LONDON
    EC2R 8AB

    Objectives

    (1) THE COMPANY SHALL APPLY THE CLEAR YEARLY INCOME AND AT ITS DISCRETION THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF NEED) AS THE WARDENS OF THE COMPANY (THE WARDENS) IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, PROVIDED THAT THE NAMES OF THE FORMER MERCERS' SCHOOL AND OF THE CHARITY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY SUCH GRANT. (2) IN EXERCISING THEIR DISCRETION AS AFORESAID THE WARDENS SHALL HAVE REGARD TO ANY REPRESENTATIONS MADE TO THEM BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CLUB FOR AS LONG AS THE CLUB REMAINS IN EXISTENCE

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    CITY OF LONDON

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    CharityBase
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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