The Melville Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Melville Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stockbridge. It was registered in November 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Melville Charitable Trust reported income of £29k and spending of £29k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £37k to £29k (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Melville Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Nicky and Eileen Barber Charitable Trust (£29k), Ekisa UK (£29k) and Henry Angell-James Memorial Trust (£29k).