MIDDLE WAY TRUST

Registered charity 1197479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant-making in favour of other charitable organisations

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION(S) OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE(S) (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT THROUGH MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £4,895,904, supported by investment gains of £354,249 which offset an expenditure excess of £109,310. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. The charity maintains a policy of holding capital reserves to generate income for grants while maintaining growth in line with inflation.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~34.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cathleen Blackburn
• Robert Maurice Kirtland

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

Operates in: 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 MIDDLETON FOUNDATION.

• THE MIDDLETON FOUNDATION income £145k
• MILLWARD CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
• M ST J WAY CHARITABLE TRUST income £334k
• RIDGEWAY COMMUNITY TRUST income £26k
• MIDLAND RAILWAY TRUST LIMITED income £615k
• THE HOMESTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £279k

Side by side with its peers

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