Cambridge Money Advice Centre (MAC)

Analysis

Cambridge Money Advice Centre (MAC) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in January 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Cambridge Money Advice Centre (MAC) reported income of £20k and spending of £22k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £26k to £20k (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cambridge Money Advice Centre (MAC) sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Church and Town Allotment Charities and Others (£20k), Brown Habgood Hall and Higden Charity (£20k) and Solidarity Spiritist Society (£20k).