THE BETH JOHNSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122401 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Beth Johnson Foundation's purpose is to stimulate/facilitate change to enhance the quality of life and experience of the ageing process for older people through its current four programmes of work being Advocacy, Health, Intergenerational Practice and Midlife; to influence policy makers/ funders to have increasing focus on effective measures to increase people's well-being and health as they age.

Objects

FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITION OR QUALITY OF LIFE (INCLUDING RECREATION, EDUCATION AND LEISURE) OF ANY PERSON LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO IS NOT LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OF AGE BY THE INITIATION OF EXPLORATORY AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND SERVICE BASED PROJECTS AND THE EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £131,955 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £279,444 to £104,553. Per the trustees' report, this financial position was driven by the withdrawal of major funding sources, including the Beth Johnson Endowment and an ICB-funded project, which necessitated the sale of the charity's freehold property, Parkfield House, to raise revenue for continuing services.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beth Johnson Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Beth Johnson Endowment Trust — “For the last 54 years the work of BJF has been supported through regular grants and financial assistance by the Beth Johnson Endowment Trust…” (source page)
• JSF Pollitzer Trust — “Thank you Emma Jane Pettit for the generous donation through your family JSF Pollitzer Trust, to support our intergenerational activities.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR Ziv Amirchair
• Dr Jane Jervis
• Hilary Stefanelli
• NICHOLAS EDMUND JOHN MASLEN
• PAUL FRANK DONOVAN RIDDELL
• Siobhan Reilly

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BETH JOHNSON ENDOWMENT.

• THE BETH JOHNSON ENDOWMENT income £136k
• CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE ROYAL UNITED KINGDOM BENEFICENT ASSOCIATION income £7.0m
• CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER TRUST income £1.1m
• THE JIM JACKSON EDUCATIONAL AND ENABLING FOUNDATION CIO income £187k
• THE ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION income £19.5m

Side by side with its peers

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