The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in May 1970, 56 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 March 2025, The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust reported income of £1.5m and spending of £2.5m, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £941k to £1.5m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Mary Kinross Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Association for Perioperative Practice (£1.5m), The Booth Centre (£1.5m) and Standing Voice (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 84% of spending and raising funds 15%. Grants to other organisations totalled £2.1m. Reserves of £621k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate.