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The Earl of Northampton's Charity

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £1.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Mercers' Company.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout London, Norfolk, Shropshire
Website
www.mercers.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE PROVISION OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR BENEFICIARIES ("BENEFICIARIES" MEANS POOR PERSONS OR MARRIED COUPLES OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO HAVE RESIDED OR IN THE CASE OF A MARRIED COUPLE ONE OF WHOM HAS RESIDED IN THE PRESCRIBED AREAS OF BENEFIT FOR NOT LESS THAN FOUR YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT);(B) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE; AND(C) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS.

Grants given

80 grants · £5,069,042 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

32.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 34.1 in 2021

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EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
210291
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 5TH NOVEMBER 2003 AS AMENDED 26 MARCH 2010 as amended on 17 Oct 2025
Contact on the register
02077264991 · info@mercers.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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