Shaw Meades Charitable Trust

Analysis

Shaw Meades Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in May 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Shaw Meades Charitable Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £14k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £4,623 to £13k (+173%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2025, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 200% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shaw Meades Charitable Trust sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Rotary Club of Shrewsbury Darwin Trust Fund (£13k), Start Circle of Friends (£13k) and The Alice Faith Mittelman Foundation (£13k).

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.