The City of London Solicitors' Company Charitable Fund

Analysis

The City of London Solicitors' Company Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The City of London Solicitors' Company Charitable Fund reported income of £62k and spending of £66k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £77k to £62k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The City of London Solicitors' Company Charitable Fund sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Compton Charitable Trust (£62k), D C Moncrieff Charitable Trust (£62k) and The Stanhope Hall (£62k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.