Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

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.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 7 years

https://www.jocoxfoundation.org/

info@jocoxfoundation.org

+44(0)3330902784

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
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/a0
31/12/18£309£406£-97£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£1,393£1,008£386£0£386£3574.330

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 11%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 13.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
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 works here?
  • 12 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant 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
Esmee Fairbairn£144,000
DCMS£114,662
Nesta£30,000
Innox Foundation£25,000
JRSST-CT£24,202
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust£20,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
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 ....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. ....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 ....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 ....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 ....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 ....more
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 ....more
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

Age Range of Trustees: 31-75
  • ELOISE TODD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Executive Director Of Ngo
  • NISHA JANI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Complementary Therapist
  • STEVE 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
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR20: 9 days late,
Main office

Jo Cox House
90 Commercial Street
BATLEY
West Yorkshire
WF17 5DS

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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