The Mel Weir Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mel Weir Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in May 2000, 26 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 April 2025, The Mel Weir Charitable Trust reported income of £42k and spending of £48k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £33k to £42k (+29%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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 Mel Weir Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shaftesbury Breast Cancer Awareness (£42k), Trelech General Charity (£42k) and Dobie's Charitable Trust (£42k).

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.