The Marden Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Marden Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ringwood. It was registered in October 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, animals and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Marden Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £29k, spending 193% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £14k to £15k (+6.2%), an average of +1.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 258% 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 Marden Charitable Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include True Vine Trust for Tanzania (£15k), Romanian Appeal Killearn - England (£15k) and Lynch Syndrome UK (£15k).

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.