M.K. Rose Charitable Trust
Charity 1039857
Overview
Summary
M.K. Rose Charitable Trust appears to be a broad, trustee-led grantmaker rather than a cause-specific delivery organisation. Its role is defined less by a narrow thematic mission than by the ability to direct income and, where desired, capital across many charitable purposes. Within that flexibility, the available evidence suggests a distinctive geographic and community orientation: a preference for Jewish charities, including in Israel, alongside selected charities in and around Birmingham.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence supports an operational footprint in Birmingham City through grant-making, rather than direct service delivery: the Charity Commission records Birmingham City among the trust's current areas of operation and identifies grant-making as its main activity.
- The latest available accounts, for the year ended 31 December 2024, identify grants to several Birmingham-based organisations, including Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Children's Hospital, St Basils, Let's Feed Brum, Birmingham Jewish Community Care and Birmingham Royal Ballet. However, they do not state the particular projects funded, beneficiary catchments or the Birmingham wards in which grant-funded activity took place.
- A 2025 Midlands Arts Centre exhibition was explicitly supported by the trust, providing recent evidence of reach through a venue at Cannon Hill Park. Available evidence did not establish activity in a specific Birmingham ward with sufficient confidence.
- No formal partnerships, physical operating sites or staff-delivered services in Birmingham are evidenced. The Charity Commission records that the trust owns or leases no land or property; its Hagley address should therefore be treated as a correspondence or administration address rather than a Birmingham operational site.
- The international coverage classification is based on the Charity Commission's current declaration that the trust operates in Israel as well as Birmingham and several West Midlands and surrounding areas. This describes the trust's grant-making footprint, not a network of directly operated services.
Additional evidence needed
- A current grant register or trustees' report identifying the purpose, delivery location and recipient of each Birmingham-related grant.
- Confirmation from the trust or named grantees of which grants remain active after the 2024 financial year and whether they fund activity in specific Birmingham wards.
- Direct evidence identifying any grant-funded venue or project as operating in a specific Birmingham ward.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Amateur Sport
- Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A flexible grantmaking platform with selective anchors
The trust appears able to respond across a very wide range of needs, while using Jewish causes and Birmingham-area charities as practical priorities rather than exclusive boundaries.
Why it matters
This helps explain the organisation as a potential connector across otherwise separate fields, but also suggests that local and Jewish-community relevance may shape which opportunities receive attention.
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“For such charity or charities or for such charitable purpose or purposes as the trustees determine.”
Source:Charity Commission“Preference is given to Jewish charities, including those in Israel and selected charities in and around Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation
Trustee judgement is central to its operating model
Funding decisions appear to depend substantially on trustee discretion, including whether to distribute capital as well as income, rather than on a fixed programme structure described in the evidence.
Why it matters
Organisations seeking support may need to understand the trust's judgement, relationships and evolving priorities, not only demonstrate fit with a narrowly defined funding category.
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“To support by distribution of income and the capital of the trust, if so desired, such charities and charitable causes as the trustees may decide.”
Source:Organisation“Makes grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Breadth may be an intentional source of reach, but obscures strategic concentration
The trust is registered across nearly all major charitable fields and beneficiary groups, suggesting capacity to support varied civic needs; however, the evidence does not reveal whether grants are actually concentrated in a few areas.
Why it matters
Its potential role in Birmingham and Jewish charitable networks could be broader than a specialist funder’s, but identifying its real influence requires seeing where money is ultimately directed.
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“What the charity does includes education, health, disability, poverty relief, overseas aid, housing, religious activities, arts, sport, community development, equality and other charitable purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission“Who the charity helps includes children and young people, older people, people with disabilities, people of a particular ethnic or racial origin, other charities, defined groups and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which causes, places and communities receive the largest or most consistent grants.
- Whether Birmingham and Jewish charitable priorities operate independently or overlap in practice.
- How often the trust distributes capital rather than income.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists with recipient, amount, location and purpose.
- Trustee reports or funding guidance explaining decision criteria and priority areas.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To support by distribution of income and the capital of the trust, if so desired, such charities and charitable causes as the trustees may decide. Preference is given to Jewish charities, including those in Israel and selected charities in and around Birmingham.
Charity objects
FOR SUCH CHARITY OR CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE.