The Maud Beattie Murchie Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Maud Beattie Murchie Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in June 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, the prevention or relief of poverty, animals and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Maud Beattie Murchie Charitable Trust reported income of £34k and spending of £34k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £30k to £34k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Maud Beattie Murchie Charitable Trust sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Fellowship CIO (£34k), Hoping York Street Kitchen (£34k) and The Freeman 1st Foundation (£34k).