UK Friends of the Mustique Charitable Trust

Analysis

UK Friends of the Mustique Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tetbury. It was registered in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending July 2025, UK Friends of the Mustique Charitable Trust reported income of £218k and spending of £125k, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £1.3m to £218k (-83%), an average of -36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2024, when income rose by 278%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, UK Friends of the Mustique Charitable Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salt of the Earth (£218k), Moldovan Mission (£218k) and Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund (£218k).