St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust

Analysis

St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Redhill. It was registered in May 1980, 46 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 and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust reported income of £19k and spending of £17k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £29k to £19k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Association of Friends of Prince George Duke of Kent Court (£19k), With Love (£19k) and Aid 4 Rojo (£19k).