Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LONDON

The Mayor's Fund for London is a non-politically aligned, independent charity which champions opportunities for young Londoners from low-income backgrounds. We deliver impactful programmes which help to safeguard and transform the life chances of young Londoners by supporting them with access to food, wellbeing, education and employment opportunities. The Mayor of London is our Patron.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£3,166£2,991£175£159£735£1450.623553
31/12/22£2,235£2,486£-250£122£560£1040.518439
31/12/21£2,591£2,496£95£133£810£21011380
31/12/20£2,824£2,766£58£102£716£2140.9146
31/12/19£1,544£1,671£-127£43£658£540.414242
31/12/18£1,957£2,006£-48£201£785£900.5230
31/12/17£2,671£2,655£16£149£833£1400.6270
31/12/16£2,128£2,717£-589£543£817£1260.6230
31/12/15£3,573£3,488£84£688£1,406£5672220
31/12/14£2,712£2,888£-176£921£1,322£6542.7180
31/12/13£2,115£1,783£333£417£1,497£7375140
31/12/12£2,180£1,654£526£508£1,165£5383.960
31/12/11£1,980£1,910£70£170£639£2751.750
31/12/10£1,691£1,420£271£123£573£1601.450
31/12/09£755£477£278£92£302£130.340

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 28%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 20%
Reserves/Spending: 0.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 16 years

www.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk

info@mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk

02079836544

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department for Education£869,775
The Berkeley Foundation£377,487
National Lottery Community Fund£342,000
The Childhood Trust£335,000
DCMS£99,000
Westminster Foundation£92,325
Rothschild Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£1,160 31/10/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to October 2023
London Legacy Development Corporation - QEOP Work Experience
£10,000 24/08/2023
Funding towards engagement with employers on QEOP, work experience placements and to recruit students from six schools (including two schools on the Park) in the Mayor’s fund for London network.
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£578 30/04/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to to April 2023
The Berkeley Foundation - Match funding payment
£2,990 31/01/2023
Unrestricted match funding payment to to January 2023
The Childhood Trust - Kitchen Social
£200,000 23/12/2022
Kitchen Social Programme. Kitchen Social, a Mayor’s Fund for London programme, is the largest independent provider of food for children in London during the school holidays. Kitchen Social is a ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Cost of Living grant
£10,000 06/12/2022
One-off payment towards Take & Make boxes
The Berkeley Foundation - Kitchen Social partnership 2022-2025
£255,000 08/08/2022
Multi year Strategic Partner grant in support of the Kitchen Social programme - Year 1 of 3
The Childhood Trust - C-59077
£15,000 28/06/2022
Young people have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. At the Mayor's Fund for London, we have developed a suite of impactful programmes that transform the life chances of 4-24-year olds from ....more
The Childhood Trust - HELP US SUPPORT DISADVANTAGED YOUNG LONDONERS
£25,000 12/06/2022
The cost of living crisis is unbearable for an increasing number of young people from low-income backgrounds. At the Mayor?s Fund for London, our food, education and employment programmes help to ....more
Westminster Foundation - Grosvenor giving - Mayor's Fund for London - 24/05/2022
£68,325 24/05/2022
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Kitchen Social
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 04/03/2022
Count on Us Primary and Secondary Maths Challenge
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to The Mayor's Fund for London
£50,000 12/01/2022
Towards the Take and Make recipe box scheme for families' experiencing food insecurity in London
National Lottery Community Fund - Kitchen Social
£342,000 30/06/2021
The group is using funding to support and grow the existing network of Kitchen Social (KS) community partners that provide holiday food and activities to children aged 16 and under at risk of food ....more
The Childhood Trust - HELP US SUPPORT DISADVANTAGED YOUNG LONDONERS
£15,000 22/06/2021
Young people have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. At the Mayor?s Fund for London, we have developed a suite of impactful programmes that transform the life chances of 4-24-year olds from ....more
The Childhood Trust - Supporting disadvantaged young Londoners this Christmads
£20,000 08/12/2020
The Mayor's Fund for London supports over 40,000 young Londoners from low income and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Our wellbeing, skills and employment programmes help to ensure 4-24 ....more
The Berkeley Foundation - Mayor's Fund for London Kitchen Social 2021 Partnership
£107,760 08/12/2020
Funding to support the expansion of Kitchen Social, providing food and activities for children at risk of food insecurity during the school holidays
The Childhood Trust - Supporting disadvantaged young Londoners this Christmads
£20,000 08/12/2020
The Mayor's Fund for London supports over 40,000 young Londoners from low income and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Our wellbeing, skills and employment programmes help to ensure 4-24 ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£99,000 28/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The Childhood Trust - Kitchen Social Holiday Provision
£15,000 03/07/2020
Help tackle food insecurity, learning loss, and social isolation among children and young people by supporting the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Kitchen Social programme, plus activities to boost ....more
Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
£24,000 01/06/2020
6
Kitchen Social project providing food to young people in Westminster (Covid-19 Response)
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Mayor's Fund for London
£5,000 13/04/2020
A grant of £5,000 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Department for Education - Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2020
£869,775 01/04/2020
To make free holiday-club places available to children who are eligible for and receiving benefits-related free school meals.
The Childhood Trust - Kitchen Social Holiday Provision
£25,000 10/12/2019
Help tackle food insecurity learning loss, and social isolation among children and young people by supporting Kitchen Social ? which works with local community organisations to provide free healthy ....more
The Childhood Trust - Christmas Challenge 2018
£5,000 04/12/2018
Kitchen Social is a Mayor's Fund for London holiday food provision programme which aims to feed a minimum of 50,000 children during the school holidays across all 33 London boroughs by 2020 as well ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 29/11/2018
Access Aspiration
Greater London Authority - Kitchen social holiday hunger programme
£20,000 06/09/2018
Kitchen Social is a holiday hunger programme that will support 100 Kitchen Social Clubs offering a healthy meal to children and young people from low income households, providing 35,000 meals to ....more
The Childhood Trust - Summer Give 2018
£25,000 15/06/2018
Kitchen Social is a Mayor's Fund for London holiday food provision programme which aims to feed a minimum of 50,000 children during the school holidays across all 33 London boroughs by 2020 as well ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Kitchen Social
£175,000 30/11/2017
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Kitchen Social
Greater London Authority - Grant to Mayor's Fund for London
£20,000 07/09/2017
Kitchen Social is a holiday hunger programme that will support 50 clubs offering a healthy meal to children and young people from low income households in the programme's first year.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Mayor's Fund for London
£30,000 08/06/2017
Expansion of the Enterprise Advior Project
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Mayor's Fund for London
£50,000 08/11/2016
£50,000 over 6 months towards a project lead at the Mayor’s Fund and associated technical support in order to explore further the potential for a Social Fund for Young People.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Mayor's Fund for London
£5,000 28/10/2016
To fund production of a toolkit, training and a volunteer handbook to support clubs to successfully provide food to children and young people in the school holidays.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mayor's Youth Investment Fund
£100,500 06/10/2015
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The funding will be used to develop a package of linked social impact bonds to address youth disadvantage and enable better chances in life for children and young people across London. This will be ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 24-66
  • AZHAR MOHAMMED BHAM Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Not For Profit Director
  • DR ADERONKE SAVAGE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Engineer
  • IAN LIVINGSTONE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Company Director
  • JENNIFER HALPERN PRINCE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Ceo Of Halpern Pr
  • MEGAN REBECCA HALE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • MEHMET DALMAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Chairman And Founder Of Wmg
  • NATALIE CREARY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • RACHEL DINA NELKEN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • SOPHIE PENDER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Lawyer
  • TIMOTHY ROBERTS (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/07/2008, number: 1124833
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2008, number: 06621189
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

169 Union Street
London
SE1 0LL

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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