The J P Jacobs Charitable Trust

Analysis

The J P Jacobs Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in November 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The J P Jacobs Charitable Trust reported income of £51k and spending of £90k, spending 175% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £35k to £51k (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 313% 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 J P Jacobs Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Staffs Asperger / Autism Association (£51k), Friends of Dorset County Hospital (£51k) and Turning Point Church (£51k).

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.