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Registered charity · London

The Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.met-cityorphans.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.1m
  • 2020£1.1m£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(1) TO RELIEVE BENEFICIARIES IN CASES OF NEED OR HARDSHIP.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF BENEFICIARIES IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TO INCLUDE EDUCATION AT SCHOOL, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATION OR TRAINING IN MUSIC OR THE ARTS.(3) TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF AND RELIEVE SICKNESS, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY AMONG BENEFICIARIES IN CASES OF NEED, BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN HEALTHY RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES(4) TO HELP THE BENEFICIARIES, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES, TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Grants received

4 grants · £200,000 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.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

4.6y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 2Business services 1Other services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

2 from 2 in 2020
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
234787
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF CHARITY COMMISSION DATED 10 JUNE 2009.
Contact on the register
02087885140 · OFFICE@MET-CITYORPHANS.ORG.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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