The Mbili Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mbili Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in June 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Mbili Charitable Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £127k, spending 554% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £19k to £23k (+21%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 481% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Mbili Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The North and East Yorkshire Mark Benevolent Fund (£23k), The Marketing Foundation (£23k) and Chepstow Foodbank (£23k).

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.