The M J Samuel Charitable Trust

Analysis

The M J Samuel Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Frome. It was registered in March 1986, 40 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. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust reported income of £228k and spending of £370k, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £66k to £228k (+248%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 610%. Over the whole period it spent 607% 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 M J Samuel Charitable Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include WE:ARE Women's Empowerment And Recovery Educators (£228k), Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (Amurt) UK (£228k) and The Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine (£228k).

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.