THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 220473 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grants are broadly divided between charities helping old people children disabled the poor and educationally needy.Trustees favour grants to specific projects for locally based smaller charities but will also consider larger projects.Trustees will consider pledging a grant, subject to remaining project funding found by the charity.Generally applications for running costs will not be considered.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£113k

Latest spending

£395k

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,912,564, which the trustees classify as expendable endowment with a policy to spend all current income annually. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £30,510 for the year, driven by investment losses and grant withdrawals. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would indicate non-compliance with accounting standards or regulations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: The Trustees do not consider it appropriate to hold any level of income reserves. (held: £2.9m)

“The Trustees do not consider it appropriate to hold any level of income reserves.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (08/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

LEE NUTTALL · trustee of 1 other charity
PETER GARY BARBER · trustee of 2 other charities
Susan Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Solihull · Staffordshire · Warwickshire · Wolverhampton · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2026	£113k	£395k
05/04/2025	£126k	£340k
05/04/2024	£126k	£560k
05/04/2023	£114k	£275k
05/04/2022	£109k	£236k

Common questions

Is THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,912,564, which the trustees classify as expendable endowment with a policy to spend all current income annually. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £30,510 for the year, driven by investment losses and grant withdrawals. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would indicate non-compliance with accounting standards or regulations. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
CORAM LIFE EDUCATION	1	£20k
BRITISH HEN WELFARE TRUST	1	£900

Charities like this

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

THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST income £223k
THE MARSH CHRISTIAN TRUST income £1.7m
T.H.RUSSELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £235k
FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST income £764k
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST income £293k
THE LOPPYLUGS AND BARBARA MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST income £296k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	£113k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£223k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MARSH CHRISTIAN TRUST FY2025	£1.7m	—	3	unclear	—	no doubt
T.H.RUSSELL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£235k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST FY2025	£764k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£293k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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