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Registered charity · York

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £3.5m (2024)
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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, Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and more
Website
www.jrct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.5m£19m
  • 2023£2.9m£25m
  • 2022£1.1m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.9m£16m
  • 2020£1.6m£20m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE INCOME TO BE APPLIED FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION THINK FIT

Grants received

1 grant · £2,500 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

Most recent

Grants given

909 grants · £97,901,533 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 recipients

Most recent

  • Act Now £180,0002025-12-06
  • Craigavon Traveller's Support Committee £130,6932025-12-06
  • Diverse Youth NI £150,0002025-12-06
  • Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network £75,0002025-12-06
  • Reclaim the Agenda £180,0002025-12-06
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.

13 trustees on the board

1.3y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 13General Charitable Purposes 13Religious Activities 13

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

Health and social care 6Education 4Professional services 2

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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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£3.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

32 from 17 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
210037
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 6 NOVEMBER 1939 AS VARIED BY DEED DATED 7 DECEMBER 1968, DEED OF VARIATION DATED 18 SEPTEMBER 1990, DEED OF VARIATION DATED 13 JUNE 1998, AND DEED OF VARIATION DATED 18 NOVEMBER 2006 . as amended on 09 Sep 2022 as amended on 09 Sept 2023
Contact on the register
01904627810 · enquiries@jrct.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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