The Mitchell Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mitchell Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Mitchell Charitable Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £107k, spending 271% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £171k to £40k (-77%), an average of -31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 284% 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 Mitchell Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Tremor Foundation Charitable Trust (£40k), Salivary Gland Cancer UK (£40k) and Somerset Accident Voluntary Emergency Service (Saves) (£40k).

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.