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The JO COX Foundation

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £535k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.jocoxfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The JO COX Foundation
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£535k£591k
  • 2023£685k£649k
  • 2022£630k£591k
Earlier years
  • 2021£734k£743k
  • 2020£750k£649k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

19 grants · £1,958,054 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Spirit of 2012 · £1,016,984 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £572,276 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £114,662 (4 grants)
  • JRSST-CT · £80,232 (3 grants)
  • John Ellerman Foundation · £78,900

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £459,9052026-02-13
  • JRSST-CT £27,6722025-03-26
  • JRSST-CT £28,3582024-04-04
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £112,3712024-02-22
  • Sir George Martin Trust £5,0002023-06-29
Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 14Professional services 9Education 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£535k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

15 from 11 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1170836
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 SEP 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JAN 2018
Companies House
Company number 10392667 · Active
Contact on the register
+44(0)3330902784 · info@jocoxfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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