The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in December 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending May 2025, The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust reported income of £128k and spending of £145k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £58k to £128k (+119%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2025, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Exbury Gardens Trust (£128k), The City Charity Trust (£128k) and Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust (£126k).