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.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Malvern Hills, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted endowment reserves of £3,064,990, which exceeds its stated policy of holding no income reserves. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the trustees. The charity is unaudited and subject to an independent examination.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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

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Charities like this

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

• THE MARSH CHRISTIAN TRUST income £1.7m
• THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST income £223k
• THE MAURICE MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST income £102k
• MICHAEL GUEST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £202k
• THE 3 TS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• THE RED ROSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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