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Registered charity · Harlow

Michael Roberts Charitable Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £754k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Essex, Hertfordshire
Website
www.mrct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Michael Roberts Charitable Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£754k£742k
  • 2024£567k£546k
  • 2023£370k£346k
Earlier years
  • 2022£234k£255k
  • 2021£277k£170k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED* MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE;ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT;LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; LEARNING AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING {THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC STANDARDS OF HABITABILITY).

Grants received

30 grants · £1,034,442 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £485,944 (2 grants)
  • Trussell · £297,254 (5 grants)
  • Essex Community Foundation · £99,569 (14 grants)
  • Postcode Places Trust · £50,000
  • Postcode Community Trust · £40,000

Most recent

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.

6 trustees on the board

5.4y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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

Retail and trade 7Hospitality 3Education 2

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£754k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.1 in 2021

19 from 18 in 2024
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.
15%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.
44 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1065006
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/09/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05/03/2012
Companies House
Company number 03439299 · Active
Contact on the register
01279724515 · enquiries@mrct.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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