HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST

Registered charity 1109348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC051197 (OSCR)

Promotion of and support for commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, in order to promote harmony across different cultures, backgrounds and faiths; education in the history of the Holocaust and of Nazi persecution; education in the history of subsequent genocides; elimination of discrimination on grounds of race, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £12,855 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £1,464,633 and expenditure of £1,451,778. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £198,258, which they consider sufficient to meet working capital requirements and contractual obligations. The charity remains dependent on core government funding from MHCLG, which covers many of its core costs, but expresses confidence in securing future grants and fundraising income.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Sajid Javidchair
• BRIAN MARKESON · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Ashley
• David Austin
• Dawn Waterman
• Dr Linda Asquith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joan Salter
• Julian Blake
• MICHAEL HENRY MARX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Giannasi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phil Rosenberg
• Professor Dame Robina Shah · trustee of 3 other charities
• SIR LEIGH LEWIS

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £4.9m
• YAD VASHEM UK FOUNDATION income £515k
• BETH SHALOM LIMITED income £2.6m
• UKLFI CHARITABLE TRUST income £832k
• WAR MEMORIALS TRUST income £339k
• THE EXEMPLAR TRUST income £248k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.