Municipal General Charity

Analysis

Municipal General Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newark. It was registered in December 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Municipal General Charity reported income of £45k and spending of £50k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £37k to £45k (+23%), an average of +5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 140% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Municipal General Charity sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Redeemed Christian Church of God - the Promised Land (£45k), Cornerstone Christian Fellowship (£45k) and Joan Wilde's Charity for Minister and Poor of the Buckland and Cote Baptist Chapel (£45k).

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.