MARAH TRUST

Registered charity 1115471 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Marah operates a drop in for marginalised and vulnerable people within the Stroud area. They provide free nutritious meal four days a week in a warm and welcoming environment . There is easy access to advice through partnership agencies and practical support for all, including the homeless and isolated and those with poor physical, mental health and addiction issues.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS OF THE CHURCHES TOGETHER IN ENGLAND, PARTICULARLY BY ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED AND THE MARGINALISED, INCLUDING THOSE SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF THE ABUSE OF ALCOHOL, DRUGS OR OTHER SUBSTANCES OR GAMBLING OR OTHER ADDICTIONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small surplus and unrestricted reserves of £141,926, which is slightly less than one year of expenditure held in a CCLA investment account. The Treasurer’s report notes that while grants now account for 60% of income, the income stream is uncertain and inconsistent, and regular donations have fallen. The trustees consider the reserves policy sufficient to cover statutory obligations and contract commitments, maintaining financial prudence despite the reliance on uncertain funding.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05731514

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MARAH TRUST (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).

• Stroud Town Council — “We would like to thank the following for their donation or grant Stroud Town Council” (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.

• HAMILTON, James Dalrymple — director, appointed 06/06/2025on trustee list
• POPE, Cherril Ann — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list
• COUBROUGH, James — director, appointed 14/03/2018on trustee list
• NATT, Jacqueline Mae — director, appointed 15/04/2016on trustee list
• POPE, Cherril Ann — secretary, appointed 01/04/2026

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Mae Nattchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cherril Ann Pope
• David Drew
• James Coubrough
• James Hamilton

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Jacqueline Mae Natt — trustee here and at MINCHINHAMPTON WITH BOX PCC

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• MARTHA TRUST income £8.3m
• RHEA MINISTRIES income £153k
• BRAMA TRUST income £111k
• HARBOUR BIDEFORD income £45k
• THE MOORINGS TRUST income £272k
• MANNA MEALS income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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