THE MEDIA TRUST

Registered charity 1042733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £901k, with unrestricted reserves at £304k, which the Trustees consider to be on target against their policy of £300k. The charity reported a net income of £183k and confirmed it 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.

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

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian John Edwardschair
• Caroline Naomi Rachel Levy
• 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
• Philip Anthony Raby Smith
• 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

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Known funders

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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 ONE WORLD MEDIA TRUST.

• ONE WORLD MEDIA TRUST income £309k
• THE MEDITATION TRUST income £171k
• AL - MEDINA TRUST income £177k
• THE INDEPENDENT PRESS REGULATION TRUST income £1.2m
• SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED income £1.5m
• PREMIER CHRISTIAN MEDIA TRUST income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.