The Jerusalem Trust

Analysis

The Jerusalem Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Jerusalem Trust reported income of £2.4m and spending of £5.4m, spending 223% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £3.1m to £2.4m (-21%), an average of -5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 152% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Jerusalem Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Charity of the Order of the Marist Sisters Province of England (£2.4m), Family for Every Child (£3.1m) and Emmanuel Evangelical Church (£2.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 91% of spending and raising funds 8.8%. Grants to other organisations totalled £4.5m. Reserves of £193k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.

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.