Meliden Community Association

Analysis

Meliden Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Denbighshire. It was registered in June 1982, 44 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 provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Meliden Community Association reported income of £17k and spending of £20k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £12k to £17k (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 940%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Meliden Community Association sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Eternal Sacred Order of the Morning Star & Saint Michael Star Fountain of Life Mount Zion Borough Parish (£17k), International Education and Poverty Relief (£17k) and Sleaford Caring Trust (£17k).

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.