Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Overall weighted support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

    THE JO COX FOUNDATION

    The Jo Cox Foundation's mission is to inspire and galvanise positive change at local, national and international levels in through building stronger communities, a better public life and a fairer world in Jo Cox's honour.
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    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit £k
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/12/23£685£649£36£80£298£1743.2160
    31/12/22£630£591£38£68£263£1222.5120
    31/12/21£734£743£-8£36£225£851.4120
    31/12/20*£750£649£100£0£233£1021.9110
    31/12/19£370£525£-156n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/18£309£406£-97n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/17£1,393£1,008£386£0£386£3574.330

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.2%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.4%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
    Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 10%
    Liabilities/Income: 5%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 58%
    Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
    Quick Ratio: 8.3
    Asset Split ?
    Balance Sheet History
    Established: 8 years

    https://www.jocoxfoundation.org/

    info@jocoxfoundation.org

    +44(0)3330902784

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    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • General Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind

    Who supports them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Spirit of 2012£997,000
    DCMS£114,662
    JRSST-CT£52,560
    Nesta£30,000
    Innox Foundation£25,000
    Esmee Fairbairn£24,000
    Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust£12,500
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    JRSST-CT - Jo Cox Civility Commission
    £28,358 04/04/2024
    8
    to complete the second phase of the Jo Cox Civility Commission, advocating for their recommendations to address the issue of abuse and intimidation of elected politicians to be adopted
    Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Jo Cox Foundation (More in Common Batley & Spen)
    £5,000 29/06/2023
    Core costs for Connecting Communities
    JRSST-CT - Jo Cox Civility Commission
    £24,202 30/03/2023
    to strengthen their work to address the problem of abuse and intimidation of elected political representatives, and to produce and launch a report with cross-sectoral recommendations to address this worsening issue, gathered from an extensive ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Jo Cox Foundation
    £4,000 30/01/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    Innox Foundation - Grant to Jo Cox Foundation
    £25,000 30/05/2021
    Funding for Jo Cox Foundation to build a Youth Loneliness Network
    DCMS - Loneliness Engagement Grant - Jo Cox Foundation
    £34,134 01/04/2021
    As part of the Great Winter Get Together campaign, Jo Cox Foundation will carry out content testing, create a toolkit, and conduct research to improve the campaign's reach amongst 16-24 year olds. This will help to reduce stigma around loneliness ....more
    DCMS - Loneliness Comms Grant to Jo Cox Foundation
    £25,000 11/01/2021
    Support the Jo Cox Foundation (JCF) to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Lets Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021/22. These grants will support ....more
    County Durham Community Foundation - Core funding
    £4,000 30/11/2020
    To support core funding.
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £30,528 29/09/2020
    "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
    Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Civility in Politics Awards
    £12,500 26/06/2020
    12
    to support the second year of the Civility in Politics awards to reward and encourage (more) civil political discourse in the UK
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Jo Cox Foundation
    £20,000 28/04/2020
    6
    towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
    Nesta - AC01094
    £30,000 14/04/2020
    3
    COVID19 Lab General programme grant to The Jo Cox Foundation Grant Ref AC01094
    DCMS - Loneliness Comms Grant to Jo Cox Foundation
    £25,000 01/04/2020
    Support the Jo Cox Foundation (JCF) to undertake communications activity that will support the objectives of the Lets Talk Loneliness campaign at a critical time over winter during Covid-19, and looking forward to 2021/22. These grants will support ....more
    Spirit of 2012 - JCF Moment to Movement
    £997,000 20/01/2020
    Expanding the reach of the Great Get Together from a series of annual events to a year-round movement. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Jo Cox Foundation
    £120,000 25/09/2019
    36
    Towards project costs to support diversity of participation and reach into marginalised communities nationally, and providing evidence of best practice, impact and learning from a growth in year-round community-building initiatives.
    Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust - Civility in Politics Awards
    £7,500 10/06/2019
    10
    to create the Civility in Politics awards to reward and encourage (more) civil political discourse in the UK
    Spirit of 2012 - Digital storytelling JCF
    £19,984 19/03/2019
    Funding for JCF to improve their digital storytelling capability, and in particular to capture and disseminate the stories of five community organisers. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
    John Ellerman Foundation - The Great Get Together 2018
    £78,900 24/05/2018
    6
    Towards the costs of a programme of evaluation and learning from The Great Get Together 2018 to analyse disseminate the experience from and benefits of bringing communities together
    Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Jo Cox Foundation (More in Common Batley & Spen)
    £10,000 17/11/2017
    Core costs grant for Youth Welfare & Education
    Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Jo Cox Foundation (More in Common Batley & Spen)
    £10,000 17/11/2017
    Core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - Get Together (More in Common)
    £35,000 14/07/2017
    6
    A contribution towards start-up costs of More In Common
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (9)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split
    Based on 8/9 persons

    Age Range of Trustees: 32-75
    • AMANDA NICOLA CHETWYND-COWIESON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Campaign Coordinator
    • ELOISE KAREN TODD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Executive Director Of Ngo
    • GEETHIKA JAYATILAKA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ceo
    • JANE CLAIRE BRADY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Barrister
    • JENNIE RICHMOND Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director
    • NISHA AILEEN JAYDEV JANI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Complementary Therapist
    • ROSAMUND EVELYN BLOMFIELD-SMITH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Non-Executive Director
    • SAMANTHA JAYNE VICKERS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Headteacher/Vice Ceo
    • STEVE JOHN MORRIS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Communications Professional
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/12/2016, number: 1170836
    • Registered at Companies House on 23/09/2016, number: 10392667
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    Filing Record
    7 returns made; AR20: 9 days late,
    Main office

    2 Work
    Cutter Mill
    Tileyard North
    WAKEFIELD
    WF1 5FY

    Objectives

    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.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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