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M D C Jenks Charitable Trust

RegisteredRegistered charity number 290256LondonGrant-making and general purposes
Income£10k2025-04-05
Spending£392ksame year
Spent / received975%5-year average
Size in its cause43rd pctGrant-making and general purposes
Registered1984Trust
Employees–latest return

Analysis

M D C Jenks Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 1984, 42 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 April 2025, M D C Jenks Charitable Trust reported income of £10k and spending of £392k, spending 3770% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £4,644 to £10k (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 229%. Over the whole period it spent 975% 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, M D C Jenks Charitable Trust sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Blackford Charitable Trust (£10k), Nerses Gulbenkian (£10k) and Rotary Club of Peterborough Ortons Trust Fund (£10k).

Income and spending

£0£98k£196k£294k£392k2021 Income: £4,6442021 Spending: £3,85920212022 Income: £15,2972022 Spending: £17,27520222023 Income: £6,2142023 Spending: £020232024 Income: £6,4652024 Spending: £6,46520242025 Income: £10,3962025 Spending: £391,9212025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The Charity makes a number of modest payments to other charities in England and Wales.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
The Blackford Charitable TrustLondon£10k
Nerses GulbenkianLondon£10k
Rotary Club of Peterborough Ortons Trust FundPeterborough£10k
Halesworth Day CentreSuffolk£10k