M and L Cohen Charitable Trust

Analysis

M and L Cohen Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in February 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, M and L Cohen Charitable Trust reported income of £151k and spending of £185k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £61k to £151k (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, M and L Cohen Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bme United Limited (£151k), Keren Klei Kodesh (£151k) and Oaks Community Church North East Derbyshire (£151k).