The Mayoress' Fund for Discharged Servicemen and Women

Analysis

The Mayoress' Fund for Discharged Servicemen and Women is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in July 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Mayoress' Fund for Discharged Servicemen and Women reported income of £13k and spending of £0, leaving 100% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £9,698 to £13k (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 0.0% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Mayoress' Fund for Discharged Servicemen and Women sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ellerman Lines Benevolent Fund (£13k), Brewood Parochial Charities (£13k) and The Nazareth Way CIO (£13k).