The Marjorie and Geoffrey Jones Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Marjorie and Geoffrey Jones Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devon. It was registered in November 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending February 2025, The Marjorie and Geoffrey Jones Charitable Trust reported income of £29k and spending of £60k, spending 204% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £15k to £29k (+97%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 226% 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 Marjorie and Geoffrey Jones Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Butterflies Bereavement Support (£29k), Stepping Stones Stratford on Avon (£29k) and Ilyas Trust Limited (£29k).

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.