Mendlesham Educational Foundation

Analysis

Mendlesham Educational Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stowmarket. It was registered in August 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Mendlesham Educational Foundation reported income of £46k and spending of £47k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £60k to £46k (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Mendlesham Educational Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% 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 The Endowment Fund of the Schools of Queen Elizabeth the First, Barnet (£46k), National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (£46k) and The Bishop's Stortford High School Mitre Fund (£46k).