THE JENCKS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1197265 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the understanding and knowledge of architecture including the expanded field of architecture and the work of Charles Jencks in that field including opening and maintaining a museum in the Grade 1 listed house known as The Cosmic House in Lansdowne Walk, Holland Park, London. To promote research for the public benefit in all aspects of those subjects (and to publish the useful results).

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £155,091, a significant increase from the previous year's £22,250, driven by a net income of £132,841. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2022) → 1 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2022 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13496093

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Cosmic House (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PLEACE, Ian David — director, appointed 21/08/2026not on trustee list
• SAINSBURY, Alexander John — director, appointed 27/06/2026on trustee list
• JENCKS, Lily Clare — director, appointed 06/07/2021on trustee list
• JENCKS, Louisa — director, appointed 06/07/2021on trustee list
• ROCK, Orlando William Adam — director, appointed 06/07/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LILY CLARE JENCKSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Sainsbury
• Ian Pleace
• Louisa Jencks
• Orlando Rock

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

Operates in: 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 NICK JENKINS FOUNDATION.

• NICK JENKINS FOUNDATION income £138k
• Country Houses Foundation income £850k
• THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION income £8.0m
• THE DICKENS HOUSE AND THE DICKENS HOUSE FUND income £982k
• THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) income £24.8m
• CHISWICK HOUSE AND GARDENS TRUST income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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