The Michael & Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Michael & Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending February 2025, The Michael & Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust reported income of £69k and spending of £127k, spending 184% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £54k to £69k (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 243% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Michael & Nicola Sacher Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% 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 The Better Coffee Foundation (£69k), The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust (£69k) and The Raindance Charitable Trust (£69k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.