The Martin Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Martin Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northwich. It was registered in November 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Martin Family Charitable Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £32k, spending 234% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £133k to £14k (-90%), an average of -43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Martin Family Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jennings Charitable Trust (£14k), The Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies (£14k) and Tresillian Village Hall (£14k).

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.