Martin Geddes Charitable Trust

Analysis

Martin Geddes Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wilmslow. It was registered in January 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Martin Geddes Charitable Trust reported income of £255k and spending of £233k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £27k to £255k (+831%), an average of +75% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 355%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Martin Geddes Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include League of Friends of Weston General Hospital (£254k), The Association for Young People's Health (£255k) and MDS UK Patient Support Group (£254k).