THE MACARI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1168463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Macari Foundation is established to relieve poverty of persons who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless or those who are suffering from associated issues such as substance miss-use, mental health problems or crime and anti-social behaviour in North Staffordshire by providing night shelter accommodation, food and support to them to help them move on to independent living.

Objects

THE MACARI FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS, AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS OR THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM ASSOCIATED ISSUES SUCH AS SUBSTANCE MISS-USE, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OR CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE BY PROVIDING NIGHT SHELTER ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND SUPPORT TO THEM TO HELP THEM MOVE ON TO INDEPENDENT LIVING.

Area of benefit: IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £150,814 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £574,216 and expenditure of £725,030. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £263,218, which the trustees considered adequate against a policy target of maintaining a minimum of £50,000. The trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Macari Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LOU MACARIchair
• ANGELA SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel James Marson
• Edward McCoy
• Julie McCoy
• NICHOLAS HANCOCK B.ED

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

Operates in: Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FAT MACY'S FOUNDATION.

• FAT MACY'S FOUNDATION income £437k
• THE MA'ARIF FOUNDATION UK income £883k
• THE MARANDI FOUNDATION income £163k
• MARSH FARM FUTURES income £798k
• THE MARKAWASI FOUNDATION income £87k
• MAHARISHI FOUNDATION income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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