The Macdonald-Buchanan Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Macdonald-Buchanan Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Macdonald-Buchanan Charitable Trust reported income of £108k and spending of £141k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £144k to £108k (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 140% 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 Macdonald-Buchanan 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 Transom Trust (£108k), Hitchin Community Gardens (£108k) and Health & Education South (£107k).

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.