The Michael Goldstone Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Michael Goldstone Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in July 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Michael Goldstone Charitable Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £21k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £8,433 to £14k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Michael Goldstone Charitable Trust sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Llanfair Waterdine Community Trust (£14k), Subulus Salaam (£14k) and Martha House Association (£14k).