Mead Charitable Trust

Analysis

Mead Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Mead Charitable Trust reported income of £31k and spending of £49k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £10k to £31k (+212%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 212%. Over the whole period it spent 205% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Mead Charitable Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Family Love Ministries (£31k), Charity Voice (£31k) and The Seth Somers Trust (£31k).

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.