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THE CSJ FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1211095 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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

Latest income
£2.1m
Latest spending
£2.0m
Registered
2024
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £292,841, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £302,000 (equivalent to four months of running costs). The trustees consider this level acceptable for an organization in its infancy and confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: four months of future running costs (excluding any grant awards) (held: £293k)
“The CSJ Foundation aim to maintain unrestricted reserves equivalent to at least four months of future running costs (excluding any grant awards). This equates to £302k” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from trustees
“During the year, the charity received unrestricted income totalling £85,500 from two trustees. These donations were made without conditions and on normal charitable terms.” — page 27
“During the year, the entity charged recharges of £15,000 (2024: £25,000) to Smith Square Trading (an entity with directors in common).” — page 27
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Recharges to Smith Square Trading
“During the year, the charity received unrestricted income totalling £85,500 from two trustees. These donations were made without conditions and on normal charitable terms.” — page 27
“During the year, the entity charged recharges of £15,000 (2024: £25,000) to Smith Square Trading (an entity with directors in common).” — page 27
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Recharges and grant to Centre for Social Justice
“During the year, the charity received unrestricted income totalling £85,500 from two trustees. These donations were made without conditions and on normal charitable terms.” — page 27
“During the year, the entity charged recharges of £15,000 (2024: £25,000) to Smith Square Trading (an entity with directors in common).” — page 27
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Total income
£2.1m
Total spending
£2.0m
Cost of raising funds
£51k
Reserves (reported)
£293k
Employees
6

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£2.1m£2.0m

Common questions

Is THE CSJ FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £292,841, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £302,000 (equivalent to four months of running costs). The trustees consider this level acceptable for an organization in its infancy and confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by UHY Hacker Young.

Who funds THE CSJ FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE CSJ FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST, PRISM THE GIFT FUND, THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£323kThe prevention or relief of poverty
PRISM THE GIFT FUNDFY2024£219kEnd Poverty and Hunger
THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£10k

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE JORDAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£1.4m
THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL1£1.0m
ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL TRUST1£60k
THE DISTILLERS' CHARITY1£15k
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT1£15k
THE JOHN HORSEMAN TRUST1£5k
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY1£5k
The Ashley Family Foundation1£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CRANBROOK FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE CSJ FOUNDATION£2.1m——unclear—no doubt
THE CRANBROOK FOUNDATION FY2025£520k—0unclear—no doubt
National Centre For Universities and Business FY2025£2.9m——unclear—no doubt
SALT FOUNDATION FY2025£426k—0unclear—no doubt
RCCG SURE FOUNDATION ASSEMBLY FY2025£213k—0above—no doubt
WINDSOR ROAD FOUNDATION FY2025£101kUnder £60,0000above—no doubt

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