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MUCKLOW CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 508528 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General charitable purposes

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Latest income
£370k
Latest spending
£6k
Registered
1979
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds total £1,161,715, a significant increase from the previous year's £812,818, driven largely by a £335,618 donation of investment assets from trustees. The trustees consider the financial position healthy, noting that investments have generated dividend income and market value gains despite a net unrealised loss in the year. Reserves stood at £14,801, which the trustees aim to maintain at a level sufficient to provide resilience against future challenges.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to provide a degree of resilience against potential future challenges (held: £15k)
“The trustees aim to maintain a level of reserves sufficient to to provide a degree of resilience against potential future challenges.” — page 3
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Gift of investments by trustees
“During the year investments valued at £335,618 (2023: £540,148) were gifted by trustees to the charity.” — page 10
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Total income
£566k
Total spending
£7k
Reserves (reported)
£27k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~48.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£370k£6k
31/12/2023£566k£7k
31/12/2022£308k£1k
31/12/2021£125k£573
31/12/2020£3£365

Common questions

Is MUCKLOW CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds total £1,161,715, a significant increase from the previous year's £812,818, driven largely by a £335,618 donation of investment assets from trustees. The trustees consider the financial position healthy, noting that investments have generated dividend income and market value gains despite a net unrealised loss in the year. Reserves stood at £14,801, which the trustees aim to maintain at a level sufficient to provide resilience against future challenges. Its FY2024 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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
DEBMAR BENEVOLENT TRUST LIMITED2£628k
BEIS MENACHEM CHABAD LUBAVITCH1£183k
THE JORDAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£60k
YESHIVAS LUBAVITCH MANCHESTER1£20k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£12k
THE ROZAC CHARITABLE TRUST1£9k
DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUND1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MW (CL) FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MUCKLOW CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED£370k—0unclear—no doubt
MW (CL) FOUNDATION FY2024£350k—0unclear—no doubt
MW (GK) FOUNDATION FY2024£261kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
THE MUCKING CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£125k—0above—no doubt
THE MELOW CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
THE STOCKWELL/CLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£565k—0unclear—no doubt

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