The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Media Trust

Registered charity 1042733 Registered since 1994

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

13
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 15General 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 13Other services 6Arts and leisure 3

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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.mediatrust.org
Emailhello@mediatrust.org
Phone02078715602
AddressMedia Trust c/o Sayer Vincent, 110 Golden Lane, LONDON, EC1Y 0TG

Finances

£1,895,929 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,620,686£1,354,817
2022£1,847,608£1,695,996
2023£1,269,244£1,789,772
2024£1,535,590£1,582,417
2025£1,895,929£1,713,319

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

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.

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

Trustees (15)

15trustees
51median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Media Trust · 02895790 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 08/02/1994

5 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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