DAMILOLA TAYLOR TRUST

Registered charity 1087597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The current activities of the charity are two fold: in its wider sense it is to campaign to create a community resilience to youth violent crime. More specifically the Charity works to mentor families and young people on how to make a significant transition in thinking and knowledge so that they can lead healthy lives; stay in school; grow up to become productive adults in society.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND TO PROVIDE FOR THEM FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION. (B) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY CAUSED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY PARTICULARLY AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN WEST AFRICA. (C) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES AT THEIR DISCRETION SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: WEST AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Greenwich, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£19k
Latest spending
£77k
Registered
2001

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Policies the charity declares

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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2025

  • Volunteers: 4

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2024

  • Volunteers: 7

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2023

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £22,867 — grants £22,867 (1); 50% of the £45,337 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Southwark

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£19k£77k
31/05/2024£41k£55k
31/05/2023£45k£141k
31/05/2022£127k£90k
31/05/2021£298k£186k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund26/03/2026£186kFrom Legacy to Leadership: Youth Empowerment Through Strategic Delivery
The National Lottery Community Fund23/07/2025£20kCelebrate the legacy of Damilola Taylor
The National Lottery Community Fund17/09/2021£10kYouth Filming Project: Celebrating Hope
The National Lottery Community Fund24/01/2020£10kYear of Hope 2020 Youth Filming Project
Greater London Authority01/01/2020£150kDamilola Taylor Trust
The National Lottery Community Fund15/03/2019£20kEnhancing Greater and visible involvement and consultation in DTT (Dev Grant)
The National Lottery Community Fund21/09/2018£10kDamilola Taylor Memorial Lectures
The National Lottery Community Fund26/08/2015£10kIntergenerational Dialogue
The National Lottery Community Fund06/02/2014£10kYouth Film Making and Creative Writing Project
The National Lottery Community Fund23/08/2012£10kYouth Film Making and Creative Writing Project
UK government—£20kKnife Crime Community Fund 17-18