The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Charitable Trust Fund

Analysis

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Charitable Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, 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 December 2025, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Charitable Trust Fund reported income of £33k and spending of £51k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £35k to £33k (-4.6%), an average of -1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 273% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Charitable Trust Fund sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fraternity Without Borders UK (£33k), Crosskeys Pentecostal Church (£33k) and Poringland Fuel Allotment (£33k).

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.