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The Media Trust

The Media Trust is a registered charity (number 1042733) based in London, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Ian John Edwards since 2018. Latest income £1.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

The objects for which the Company is established are: a. to advance the education and training in all forms of media and communications of the public and in particular, members of charitable organisations and non-charitable voluntary organisations,...

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.mediatrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Media Trust
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The objects for which the Company is established are: a. to advance the education and training in all forms of media and communications of the public and in particular, members of charitable organisations and non-charitable voluntary organisations, under-represented groups and communities and young people; b. to promote racial and religious harmony and equality and diversity by helping the media and creative sector to advance social responsibility, diversity, inclusion and representation of broader society in their workforce and their output.c. to promote the efficient and effective application of resources for charitable and educational purposes by the provision of advice, training, mentoring, volunteering and creative and related services.

Grants received

47 grants · £11,308,156 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Postcode Innovation Trust £10,0002025-03-28
  • People's Postcode Trust £5,0002025-03-18
  • Postcode Community Trust £5,0002025-03-18
  • Postcode Local Trust £5,0002025-03-18
  • Postcode Society Trust £5,0002025-03-06
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

13 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 11Other services 2Arts and leisure 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.9m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

27 from 23 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1042733
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7TH OCTOBER 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 25 SEPTEMBER 2001. as amended on 17 Mar 2020
Companies House
Company number 02895790 · Active
Contact on the register
02078715602 · hello@mediatrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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