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Registered charity · Lancashire

Brian Mercer Trust

a) Prevention of, or relief from, disadvantage and suffering resulting from poverty, ill-health, or other causes globally.b) Promotion of visual arts, and artistic talent especially in the North West of England.c) Support for charitable community...

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £753k (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
Where
Burkina Faso, India, Malawi, Togo and more
Website
www.brianmercertrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£753k£1.3m
  • 2024£1.4m£430k
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

a) Prevention of, or relief from, disadvantage and suffering resulting from poverty, ill-health, or other causes globally.b) Promotion of visual arts, and artistic talent especially in the North West of England.c) Support for charitable community initiatives local to Blackburn, Lancashire. d) Furtherance of any other charitable purposes in any part of the world as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit.

Grants received

1 grant · £26,779 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

Grants given

132 grants · £5,579,203 total

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Top recipients

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.

3 trustees on the board

1.5y median 1.5y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Overseas Aid/famine Relief 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3

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

Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£753k 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

0
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
1076925
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 5 JULY 1999 as amended on 08 Oct 2019 as amended on 12 Jun 2020 as amended on 04 May 2021
Contact on the register
01254686600 · info@brianmercertrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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