Merseyside Medical Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Merseyside Medical Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in March 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Merseyside Medical Benevolent Fund reported income of £27k and spending of £13k, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £21k to £27k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Merseyside Medical Benevolent Fund sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wildbrook Charitable Trust (£27k), King George's Field, Whittlesford (£27k) and Healing Hands Network (£27k).