J D M Charitable Trust

Analysis

J D M Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in October 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, J D M Charitable Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £14k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £6,939 to £13k (+93%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, J D M Charitable Trust sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barnet Asians Old People Association (£13k), Polstead Village Hall (£13k) and Medhane Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church of Greater Manchester (£13k).

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.