The Owen Jenkins Trust

Analysis

The Owen Jenkins Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shrewsbury. It was registered in January 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Owen Jenkins Trust reported income of £122k and spending of £23k, leaving 81% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2025, income fell from £596k to £122k (-79%), an average of -41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 747%. Over the whole period it spent 6.2% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Owen Jenkins Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Charter 600 Charity (£122k), Spar Charitable Fund (£122k) and Pawnbrokers Charitable Institution (£122k).