The Mayor's Fund for London

Analysis

The Mayor's Fund for London is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06621189). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Mayor's Fund for London reported income of £2.3m and spending of £2.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.6m to £2.3m (-11%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Mayor's Fund for London sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shree Swaminarayan Sidhant Sajivan Mandal London (£2.3m), Welcome Church (£2.3m) and Emaan Relief (£2.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 84%, trading 9.5% and donations and legacies 5.9%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 2.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £714k. Reserves of £324k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 20 people.