The Margaret Robertson Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Margaret Robertson Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southport. It was registered in January 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and animals, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Margaret Robertson Charitable Trust reported income of £105k and spending of £349k, spending 332% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £4.8m to £105k (-98%), an average of -62% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 43% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Margaret Robertson Charitable Trust sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brecknock Federation of Yfc (£105k), GIST Cancer UK (£105k) and The Ramar Charitable Settlement (£105k).

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.