MPM CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1079249 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support humanitarian causes, mainly connected with reglious based enterprises, together with other deserving causes that the Trustees deem appropriate. The Trustees mainly supported projects that relieved some of the effects of poverty in Third World countries, particularly Africa, which had low overheads and where physical checks were being carried out by trustworthy people.

Objects

1. THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER TO, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF, SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.2. THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF 21 YEARS FROM 1 JULY 1989 INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR, ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME, AND THE RESULTING INCOME, IN ANY UNAUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCREDITATION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR

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: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,402,981, an increase from the previous year's £5,364,976. The trustees maintain reserves at a level they consider expedient to discharge actual and anticipated expenditure, with no specific numerical target defined in the policy. The charity reported a net income of £38,005 for the year, funded primarily by donations and investment income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dunkley's. 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL PETER MCBRAIDAchair
• IAN JOSEPH MCBRAIDA
• Jennifer Blanchard
• KATHLEEN MADELINE MCBRAIDA
• Michael John Harper
• Robert Paul Hedge

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

Operates in: Brazil · India · Kenya · Kosovo · Malawi · Mali · Nepal · Sierra Leone · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £224k
• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• THE CHARIS TRUST income £591k
• JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.5m
• MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £116k
• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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