The Margaret Garratt Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Margaret Garratt Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheddar. It was registered in July 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Margaret Garratt Memorial Trust reported income of £10k and spending of £14k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £8,451 to £10k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 127% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Margaret Garratt Memorial Trust sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Condon Family Trust (£10k), The Mayor's Charity Appeal Trust (Basildon) (£10k) and The Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry Combined Charitable Trust (£10k).