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Team Mikayla

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1159720WantageChildren and youth development
Income£28k2025-09-01
Spending£52ksame year
Spent / received105%5-year average
Size in its cause72nd pctChildren and youth development
Registered2014CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Team Mikayla is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wantage. It was registered in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Team Mikayla reported income of £28k and spending of £52k, spending 185% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £44k to £28k (-36%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Team Mikayla 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 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Scotts Park Parent Staff Association (£28k), Denholme Youth Cafe (£28k) and Ironbridge and Severn Gorge Lions Club (CIO) (£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.

Income and spending

£0£15k£31k£46k£61k2021 Income: £43,8212021 Spending: £33,89320212022 Income: £61,3632022 Spending: £35,26320222023 Income: £34,1972023 Spending: £48,90820232024 Income: £39,6782024 Spending: £47,73020242025 Income: £28,1432025 Spending: £52,1442025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

We provide Mikayla's Wishes to children fighting Cancer and receiving treatment at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and Nottingham Children's Hospital. Trustees reserve discretion to serve/adopt other hospitalsFunds are raised via sponsored events, collections, stalls, public and commercial donations, with ZERO spent on staff

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Scotts Park Parent Staff AssociationBromley£28k
Denholme Youth CafeWest Yorkshire£28k
Ironbridge and Severn Gorge Lions Club (CIO)Telford£28k
Marlow District Scout CouncilMarlow£28k