The Coles-Medlock Foundation

Analysis

The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bath. It was registered in November 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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 individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Coles-Medlock Foundation reported income of £480k and spending of £1.0m, spending 216% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £293k to £480k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2025, when income rose by 243%. Over the whole period it spent 292% 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 Coles-Medlock Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include H-Pan(Hope for the Poor and Needy) (£480k), Moseley Community Development Trust (£481k) and Embercombe (£480k).

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.