MICHAEL ROBERTS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1065006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide voluntary work and social opportunities for people with a disability and people who are socially disadvantaged. To provide emergency food for people in crisis and to reduce companies food wastage and redistribute it back into the community in Harlow and the surrounding area.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £11,245 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by planned investments in service expansion and staffing. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £120,476, which is just short of their stated policy target of retaining six months of operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03439299

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “Underwrites our annual operating costs with a 5 year grant of £476,000” (source page)
• Trussell Trust — “The Primary School book “When Sam tried to close the Foodbank” has been spoonsored by the Trussell Trust” (source page)

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.

• BRIANT, James David — director, appointed 05/03/2025on trustee list
• POYNTZ, Jocelin Georgina Massey, Rev — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
• KHAN, Ayub — director, appointed 16/11/2022on trustee list
• PATTIMORE, Gary Ronald — director, appointed 24/04/2020on trustee list
• KNOTT, Teresa Ann — director, appointed 22/06/2012on trustee list
• EHLERS, Jeanette — director, appointed 20/11/2009on trustee list
• THORNTON, Andrew Mark — secretary, appointed 28/07/2021

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ayub Khan
• Gary Ronald Pattimore
• JEANETTE EHLERS
• James Briant
• Rev Jocelin Georgina Massey POYNTZ
• TERESA ANN KNOTT

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).