The Peter Jost Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Peter Jost Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in March 1986, 40 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 and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Peter Jost Charitable Foundation reported income of £87k and spending of £263k, spending 302% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £3.3m to £87k (-97%), an average of -60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 26% 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 Peter Jost Charitable Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecological Surgeons (£87k), Dharam Seva Records (£87k) and Turner Dumbrell Foundation (£87k).

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.