Registered charity · Birmingham
Money Advice Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £20m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Christine HayesChair · since 2023
- Adam KhanTrustee · since 2023
- Alexandra MeagherTrustee · since 2023
- Laurence Edward BurgessTrustee · since 2019
- Mark AllisonTrustee · since 2024
- Penelope Jane ClarkeTrustee · since 2025
- Sarah Ruth DesaiTrustee · since 2022
- Thomas Richard Hamilton ReddyTrustee · since 2025
- Zitah Mcmillan-WardTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.moneyadvicetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Money Advice Trust
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£20m£23m
- 2024£22m£23m
- 2023£21m£19m
Earlier years
- 2022£16m£14m
- 2021£16m£14m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 69% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THAT ARISING FROM INDEBTEDNESS; AND(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL FINANCES
Grants received
17 grants · £6,368,792 total360Giving 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
- Department for Work and Pensions · £5,453,980 (5 grants)
- HM Revenue & Customs · £757,898 (6 grants)
- Comic Relief · £113,414
- Northern Rock Foundation · £25,000
- Quartet Community Foundation · £18,500 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Work and Pensions
- HM Revenue & Customs
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Christine Hayes Chair since 2023
- Adam Khan since 2023
- Alexandra Meagher since 2023
- Laurence Edward Burgess since 2019
- Mark Allison since 2024
- Penelope Jane Clarke since 2025
- Sarah Ruth Desai since 2022
- Thomas Richard Hamilton Reddy since 2025
- Zitah Mcmillan-Ward since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Laurence Edward Burgess since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Christine Hayes Chair since 2023
- Adam Khan since 2023
- Alexandra Meagher since 2023
- Laurence Edward Burgess since 2019
- Mark Allison since 2024
- Penelope Jane Clarke since 2025
- Sarah Ruth Desai since 2022
- Thomas Richard Hamilton Reddy since 2025
- Zitah Mcmillan-Ward since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
6.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1099506
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 APRIL 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 19 JULY 2005 AND 3 MARCH 2008 AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27 MAY 2010 AS AMENDED ON 25 APR 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 DEC 2020 as amended on 04 Jun 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 04741583 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01216615762
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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