The Joliba Trust

Analysis

The Joliba Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newton Abbot. It was registered in December 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Joliba Trust reported income of £265k and spending of £387k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £302k to £265k (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Joliba Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Diss Christian Community Church (£265k), Citizens Advice Solihull Borough Ltd (£265k) and Life with Hope Trust (£265k).