The J J Charitable Trust

Analysis

The J J Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The J J Charitable Trust reported income of £842k and spending of £2.1m, spending 255% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £674k to £842k (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 252% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The J J Charitable Trust sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fairy Bricks (£842k), The College of Osteopaths (£842k) and Advocacy West Wales - Eiriolaeth Gorllewin Cymru (£842k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 91%. Charitable activities took 90% of spending and raising funds 9.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.6m. It employed 20 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.