JO'S CERVICAL CANCER TRUST

Registered charity 1133542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q120075799

Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust (formerly Jo's Trust and set up in 1999) is the only UK charity dedicated to women and their families affected by cervical cancer and cervical abnormalities. We offer a range of online and face to face support to ensure women never feel alone at any stage of their journey. (Jo's Trust accounts can be found in the 'removed charities' section of the Register of Charities.)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL ASPECTS OF CERVICAL CANCER;4.2 TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF CERVICAL CANCER BY SUPPORTING AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THECAUSES, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT OF THIS DISEASE AND BY PUBLISHING THEUSEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;4.3 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND INFORMATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO PEOPLE AFFECTED BYCERVICAL CANCER; AND4.4 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ASTHE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £356,132 from £601,602 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure for the period. The charity reports a difficult operating climate with income dropping to £1,360k, though it secured new partnerships to support future activities. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2022 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.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

3 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07111375 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: JO'S CERVICAL CANCER TRUST TRADING LIMITED Companies House 08158265

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• COGGINS-THOMPSON, Samantha — director, appointed 10/04/2023on trustee list
• FITZSIMONS, Morgan — director, appointed 10/04/2023on trustee list
• JAMES, Sharon — director, appointed 11/10/2022on trustee list
• OLAITAIN, Adeola, Dr — director, appointed 15/08/2022on trustee list
• RAINS, Charlotte — director, appointed 01/03/2021on trustee list
• SUNKARANENI, Amelia Charlotte — director, appointed 01/03/2021on trustee list
• NEWTON, Catherine Louise — director, appointed 11/12/2017on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Carol Louise — director, appointed 11/12/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 25.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Jameschair
• Amelia Sunkaraneni
• Carol Louise Taylor
• Catherine Louise Newton
• Charlotte Rains
• Dr Adeola Olaitain
• Morgan Fitzsimons
• Samantha Coggins-Thompson

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

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

Income and spending

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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 WOMAN'S TRUST.

• WOMAN'S TRUST income £1.2m
• THE MARY HOW TRUST FOR CANCER PREVENTION income £1.7m
• LADIES FIGHTING BREAST CANCER CHARITABLE TRUST income £233k
• WOMEN'S CANCER DETECTION SOCIETY income £74k
• CANCER CARE TRUST income £48k
• JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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