Celia Mackay Charitable Trust

Analysis

Celia Mackay Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Loughborough. It was registered in March 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Celia Mackay Charitable Trust reported income of £61k and spending of £108k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £37k to £61k (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 263% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Celia Mackay Charitable Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% 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 League of Friends of Bridgnorth Hospital (£61k), Duronic Foundation Limited (£61k) and Friends of Hadhramaut (£61k).

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.