The Muriel and Gershon Coren Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Muriel and Gershon Coren Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Edgware. It was registered in March 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, overseas aid/famine relief and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The Muriel and Gershon Coren Charitable Foundation reported income of £1.5m and spending of £4.5m, spending 302% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £3.0m to £1.5m (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 1929%. Over the whole period it spent 19% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Muriel and Gershon Coren Charitable Foundation sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ryedale Special Families (£1.5m), Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (£1.5m) and Merton Community Transport (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 90% of spending and raising funds 8.7%. Grants to other organisations totalled £4.0m. Reserves of £66.2m would cover about 175 months of spending at that rate.

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.