The Joseph Collier Charitable Trust

Registered charity 209618 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOSEPH COLLIER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE PAMELA AND JACK MAXWELL FOUNDATION

National and international causes, principally Jewish. No localised appeals, please.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS AS TRUSTEES DECIDE. TO MAKE GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS TO RELIEVE OR PREVENT FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND POVERTY IN THE UK AND WORLDWIDE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£45k
Latest spending
£43k
Registered
1962
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,381,709, with invested assets of approximately £1.37m acting as a financial reserve. The trustees' policy is to distribute substantially all income, and the charity reported a net surplus for the year. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: distribute substantially all its income (reserves figure: £1.4m)
“The trust’s policy is to distribute substantially all its income.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£45k£43k
05/04/2024£47k£45k
05/04/2023£44k£46k
05/04/2022£46k£43k
05/04/2021£38k£40k

Common questions

Is The Joseph Collier Charitable Trust financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,381,709, with invested assets of approximately £1.37m acting as a financial reserve. The trustees' policy is to distribute substantially all income, and the charity reported a net surplus for the year. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
The Joseph Collier Charitable Trust£45k—0unclear—no doubt
THE JOSEPH CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£505k—0unclear—no doubt
SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON'S CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£187k—0unclear—no doubt
S O CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£149k—0unclear—no doubt
OIZER CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£955k—0unclear—no doubt
JENIFFER AND JONATHAN HARRIS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£153k—0unclear—no doubt

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