THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 327176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity donates funds to organisations, primarily in Nottinghamshire, which help the socially or medically disadvantaged.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves of £1,782,887 are held, which is in accordance with the Trustees' policy target of at least £1,000,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(1,625,880) for the year, primarily driven by investment losses, but maintains sufficient liquidity and reserves to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dafferns Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 22.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID NIGEL LINDLEY FCA
• JOHN DAVID PEARS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard William Stanley

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELIZABETH JANE JONES.

• ELIZABETH JANE JONES income £738k
• THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £635k
• FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST income £764k
• The Jones Community and Education Trust income £365k
• The Johnson Family Charitable Trust income £199k
• THE SCS TRUST income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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