The Van Mesdag Fund

Analysis

The Van Mesdag Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in N/A. It was registered in April 2016, 10 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 and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Van Mesdag Fund reported income of £93k and spending of £362k, spending 389% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £213k to £93k (-56%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 238% 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 Van Mesdag Fund sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sir Hugh and Lady Sykes Charitable Trust (£93k), R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust (£93k) and The Estelle Trust (£93k).

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.