Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Charity for the Benefit of the Inhabitants

Analysis

Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Charity for the Benefit of the Inhabitants is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Macclesfield. It was registered in July 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Charity for the Benefit of the Inhabitants reported income of £13k and spending of £6,387, leaving 49% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £6,484 to £13k (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Charity for the Benefit of the Inhabitants sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thomas Lee Thornton's Charity - Newnham Old School Trust (£13k), The Darkley Trust (£13k) and The Bradbury Charitable Trust (£13k).