The Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wolverhampton. It was registered in September 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust reported income of £28k and spending of £38k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £61k to £28k (-54%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 323% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, The Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% 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 Friends of Paddock Wood Primary School (£28k), 2nd Nailsea (Holy Trinity) Scout Group (£28k) and Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School Parent Teachers Association (£28k).

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.