JAC TRUST

Registered charity 1189523 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as J A CLARK CHARITABLE TRUST

We make grants to non-profit organisations in order to improve the lives of people suffering disadvantage and discrimination.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD INCLUDING BY THE AWARD OF GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS AND IN SUCH OTHER MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

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

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Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,026,301 for the year, driven by increased grant-making and a decline in investment income. Total funds decreased from £10,730,633 to £9,704,332, with unrestricted funds falling to £583,299. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM HENRY BRIGHT PYMchair
• Aidan John Raymond Pelly
• Andrew Pym
• David Linehan
• Odette Clark Campbell
• Vanessa Ishimwe

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Cameroon · Ethiopia · Guatemala · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Rwanda · Somalia · South Sudan · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

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 THE JAKE MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE JAKE MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £76k
• THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST income £842k
• JACK LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE GNC TRUST income £45k
• JOHN ACKROYD CHARITABLE TRUST income £29k
• THE AA TRUST income £264k

Side by side with its peers

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