Jba Trust Limited

Analysis

Jba Trust Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Skipton. It was registered in December 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07840801). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Jba Trust Limited reported income of £223k and spending of £249k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £213k to £223k (+4.6%), an average of +1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Jba Trust Limited sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hundred Heroines (£223k), Leicester Print Workshop Studios and Resource (£223k) and Whittington Castle Preservation Trust (£223k).

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.