THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1203338 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191088

The charity is an independent grant-making organisation created to benefit the public in general by making grants to selected charitable organisations that work in the broad areas of disadvantaged young people, homelessness, refugees and asylum seekers, education and access to opportunity. Applications for funding are by invitation only and we are unable to respond to unsolicited proposals.

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND & WALES) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (I) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; (II) PREVENTING AND RELIEVING POVERTY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE;(III) RELIEVING HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE, OR ARE AT RISK OF, BECOMING HOMELESS INCLUDING THOSE IN NEED OF HELP ACQUIRING STABILITY AND A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE; AND(IV) RELIEVING THOSE IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH (WHETHER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL), DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £24,886,901, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet all known or reasonably anticipated commitments. The charity reported a net income before investment gains of £17,155,971 against charitable expenditure of £5,163,674, resulting in a strong financial position with no ongoing multi-year grant obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~57.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Marcel Johannes Maria Theodorus Jongenchair
• Douglas Jonathan Bendle
• Muriel Marie-Cecile Jongen

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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