JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 295716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Breakthrough T1D, JDRF, JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION, THE JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION (UK), THE JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC040123 (OSCR)

JDRF adopted the new working name Breakthrough T1D in October 2024, and is part of an international network with a shared vision of a world without type 1 diabetes. In the UK we fund research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes, work to accelerate the pace of research and the delivery of treatments and give support and a voice to children and adults living with type 1, and their families.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 20% to £8m, while charitable expenditure increased by 29% to £5.6m, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity's free reserves fell to £0.91m, which is below its stated policy target of £1m, due to an unexpected downturn in income in the final months of the financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02071638
• Trading subsidiary: JDRF TRADING LIMITED Companies House 06455144

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Cure Alliance — “The trial at the University of Chicago is funded through Breakthrough T1D with additional support from the Cure Alliance.” (source page)

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.

• BATES, Stephen Neville — director, appointed 06/10/2025on trustee list
• BRUCE, David Peter — director, appointed 06/10/2025on trustee list
• SOWMAN, Dean Mathew — director, appointed 06/10/2025on trustee list
• SWANN, Nadia Lee Lafferty — director, appointed 13/03/2023on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 13/03/2023on trustee list
• LUNDIN, Per Anders, Dr — director, appointed 15/03/2021on trustee list
• CHEBIB, Jared Christopher — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• AIRD-MASH, Phillip John — director, appointed 18/03/2019on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Jonathan Michael — secretary, appointed 17/09/2007

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Peter Bruce
• Dean Mathew Sowman
• Dr Per Lundin
• Jared Chebib
• Nadia Lee Lafferty Swann
• Phillip John Aird-Mash
• Sarah Elizabeth Johnson
• Stephen Neville Bates

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT DIABETES.

• THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT DIABETES income £1.2m
• THE BRITISH DIABETIC ASSOCIATION income £38.4m
• PRIMARY CARE DIABETES SOCIETY income £169k
• Action4Diabetes income £615k
• THE NOVO NORDISK UK RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £331k
• THE INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES TRUST income £476k

Side by side with its peers

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