JOHN JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 328359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting advancement of education in the Christian religion amongst children and young peopleAdvancing Christian religion by providing grants to those undertaking training for a specific ministryRelieving poverty, advancing religion, promoting education and doing anything charitable for the benefit of the community

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£344k

Latest spending

£477k

Registered

1989

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,799,110, a decrease from the previous year's £1,810,886. The trustees report confirms that net assets decreased to £1,257,613 due to grant payments of £324,670 exceeding gross income of £21,790 plus investment sales proceeds. The charity maintains a reserves policy to cover future grant commitments, operating expenses, and urgent funding applications.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient funds to cover all grant commitments made for future years; such sums as the Trustees consider appropriate to meet the Trust's proper operating expenses each year; and such sums as the Trustees consider reasonable to meet any applications for urgent funding (held: £1.8m)

“The Trustwill always hold in reserve (i) sufficient funds to cover all grant commitments madefor future years; (ii) such sums as the Trustees consider appropriate to meet the Trust's proper operating expenses each year and(iii) such sums as the Trustees consider reasonable to meet any applications for urgent funding which maybe received from timeto time.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.2m

Reserves (reported)

£1.4m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~13.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (99% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Carolyn Pate
GORDON REID
PHOEBE REID
Rosemary Patricia Dunn · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£344k	£477k
31/03/2024	£1.3m	£1.2m
31/03/2023	£44k	£140k
31/03/2022	£109k	£111k
31/03/2021	£82k	£110k

Common questions

Is JOHN JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,799,110, a decrease from the previous year's £1,810,886. The trustees report confirms that net assets decreased to £1,257,613 due to grant payments of £324,670 exceeding gross income of £21,790 plus investment sales proceeds. The charity maintains a reserves policy to cover future grant commitments, operating expenses, and urgent funding applications. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BEAULAND LIMITED	1	£107k
EMES FOUNDATION	1	£24k
GEFEN FOUNDATION	1	£0

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH.

TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k
MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £119k
THE CHARIS TRUST income £591k
THE CROSS TRUST income £707k
THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
HOLLYHOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £385k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
JOHN JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST	£344k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH FY2025	£141k	£30,632	unclear	—	no doubt
MRS R P TINDALL'S CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£119k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHARIS TRUST FY2025	£591k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CROSS TRUST FY2025	£707k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP FY2025	£226k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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