MARGARET CLITHEROW TRUST

Registered charity 1163629 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MCT

To empower Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and professionals that work with those communities via services related to training, health, education, pastoral care, advocacy, mediation, safeguarding, domestic abuse and specialist referrals.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£294k
Latest spending
£234k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income of £293,519 exceeded expenditure of £233,837, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £62,621, which the trustees note is slightly above their policy target of three months of annual expenditure. The filing confirms there are no material liabilities, debts, or fund deficits as of year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £63k)
“The trustees seek to hold three months of reserves so the charity can always meet its legal commitments” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£294k£234k
31/12/2024£243k£183k
31/12/2023£180k£172k
31/12/2022£205k£146k
31/12/2021£131k£92k

Common questions

Is MARGARET CLITHEROW TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income of £293,519 exceeded expenditure of £233,837, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £62,621, which the trustees note is slightly above their policy target of three months of annual expenditure. The filing confirms there are no material liabilities, debts, or fund deficits as of year-end. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds MARGARET CLITHEROW TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MARGARET CLITHEROW TRUST as a grant recipient include CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2025£16kChurch & Communities Programme
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2022£9kChurch & Communities Programme

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery31/07/2024£20kMillionaire Street 2024 06w3 Year 1
Postcode Lottery30/06/2024£20kMillionaire Street 2024 06w3 Year 2
The National Lottery Community Fund22/04/2024£206kMaking a Difference - refocused
The National Lottery Community Fund23/06/2023£10kDomestic Abuse Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund11/02/2022£10kMCT Volunteers
The Mercers' Company06/10/2021£25kGrant to Margaret Clitherow Trust
The National Lottery Community Fund25/03/2021£145kMaking a Difference
UK government22/09/2020£10kCoronavirus Community Support Fund

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 ST MARGARET'S HOUSE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MARGARET CLITHEROW TRUST£294k—0unclear—no doubt
ST MARGARET'S HOUSE FY2025£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
ST. MARGARET'S COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£243k—0unclear—no doubt
NHANCED COMMUNITIES FY2025£182k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CLEWER INITIATIVE FY2025£347k—0unclear—no doubt
CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD FY2025£133k—0unclear—no doubt

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