C J and E J Melbourne Trust

Analysis

C J and E J Melbourne Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, C J and E J Melbourne Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £35k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £27k to £23k (-15%), an average of -4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 172% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, C J and E J Melbourne Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brackley Foodbank (£23k), Re:charge R&r (£23k) and The St Paul's Old School Trust (Cheltenham) (£23k).

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.