M & E Charitable Trust

Analysis

M & E Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in October 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, M & E Charitable Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £109k, spending 225% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £70k to £48k (-31%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, M & E 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 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Feeding Dreams (UK) (£48k), North Tyne & Redesdale Community Partnership (£48k) and Lifeworks Global (£48k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.