Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust

Analysis

Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in January 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £71k, spending 201% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £51k to £35k (-31%), an average of -8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 167% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Mary Macarthur Holiday Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young Generation (£35k), Huby Playing Fields Association (£35k) and The Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association (£35k).

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.