The Miriam Dean Refugee Trust Fund

Analysis

The Miriam Dean Refugee Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newbury. It was registered in September 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Miriam Dean Refugee Trust Fund reported income of £66k and spending of £178k, spending 267% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £272k to £66k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 155%. Over the whole period it spent 127% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Miriam Dean Refugee Trust Fund sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Buckhurst Park Community Centre (£66k), Newsham and New Delaval Youth Forum (£66k) and UK Veterans Hearing Foundation (£66k).