The Cordwainers' Company Common Investment Fund

Analysis

The Cordwainers' Company Common Investment Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under disability. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Cordwainers' Company Common Investment Fund reported income of £86k and spending of £77k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £59k to £86k (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2024, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Cordwainers' Company Common Investment Fund sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bognor Regis Shopmobility (£86k), Pimlico Puffins Swimming Club (£86k) and Accessible Boating Thames (£86k).