THE MEDIA TRUST

Registered charity 1042733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We inspire the media and communications industry to share their time, knowledge and creativity to benefit charities and underrepresented communities.

Objects

The objects for which the Company is established are: a. to advance the education and training in all forms of media and communications of the public and in particular, members of charitable organisations and non-charitable voluntary organisations, under-represented groups and communities and young people; b. to promote racial and religious harmony and equality and diversity by helping the media and creative sector to advance social responsibility, diversity, inclusion and representation of broader society in their workforce and their output.c. to promote the efficient and effective application of resources for charitable and educational purposes by the provision of advice, training, mentoring, volunteering and creative and related services.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £303,638, which the Trustees consider to be on target against their policy of £300k. The charity reported a net income of £182,610 for the year, driven by an increase in income from charitable activities. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02895790
• Trading subsidiary: MEDIA TRUST TRADING LIMITED Companies House 10942812

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Media Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BOGER, Kris — director, appointed 12/05/2026not on trustee list
• COXHILL, Paul Anthony — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• HARDIE, Dawn Helene — director, appointed 14/05/2025on trustee list
• ROUSSEAU-BEDOUCH, Lisa Deborah — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Philip Anthony — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• LEVY, Caroline Naomi Rachel — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Etebom Patrick — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
• OSEI-NSAFOAH, Claudia — director, appointed 02/02/2023on trustee list
• BLACK, David Alan — director, appointed 10/10/2022on trustee list
• EXON, Melanie Jane — director, appointed 30/06/2022on trustee list
• TOMLINSON, Samuel Paul — director, appointed 22/04/2022on trustee list
• DAYAL, Satyen Vallabh — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Ian John — director, appointed 27/11/2018on trustee list
• COUCHMAN, Edmon Paul — director, appointed 27/11/2018on trustee list
• AHMED, Kamal — director, appointed 26/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian John Edwardschair
• Claudia Osei-Nsafoah
• David Alan Black
• Dawn Helene Hardie
• Edmon Paul Couchman
• Etebom Patrick Davies
• Kamal Ahmed
• Kristoff Hugo Mikael Rene Boger
• Lisa Rousseau-Bedouch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Exon
• Paul Anthony Coxhill
• Samuel Paul Tomlinson
• Satyen Vallabh Dayal

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GPM CHARITABLE TRUST.

• GPM CHARITABLE TRUST income £28k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION income £22.9m
• M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
• BHM CHARITABLE TRUST income £136k
• R M SALES CHARITABLE TRUST income £0

Side by side with its peers

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