The Megan Gwynne-Jones Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Megan Gwynne-Jones Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chester. It was registered in November 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Megan Gwynne-Jones Charitable Trust reported income of £58k and spending of £63k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £14k to £58k (+305%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2025, when income rose by 117%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Megan Gwynne-Jones Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Museum of Dartmoor Life (£58k), The Sewell Barn Theatre Trust Fund (£58k) and Community Heritage Arts and Media Project Limited (£58k).

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.