The Merchant Venturers Charities Investment Pool

Analysis

The Merchant Venturers Charities Investment Pool is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Merchant Venturers Charities Investment Pool reported income of £401k and spending of £469k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £423k to £401k (-5.2%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 1,463 England and Wales charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Merchant Venturers Charities Investment Pool sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pri Fund Army Foundation College, Harrogate (£392k), The Hosking Charitable Trust (£415k) and The Friends of Exeter Cathedral (£392k).

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.