Jo Li Trust
Charity 1089476
Overview
Summary
Jo Li Trust appears to be a broadly scoped charitable funder and research sponsor rather than a specialist frontline provider. Its stated purposes span health, disability, education, housing and environmental or heritage concerns, while its beneficiaries include both people with disabilities and other voluntary organisations. This combination suggests a potentially enabling role within the wider civic sector: supporting work undertaken by others across several domains. However, the available evidence does not reveal its geographic focus, funding priorities, scale or actual partnerships.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Edgbaston
Confidence: medium
Direct evidence records a Jo Li Trust-supported ESOR scholarship delivered at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 2024. The hospital is in Edgbaston ward. This evidences a partner-delivered training activity in the ward, rather than a Jo Li Trust-owned or independently operated site; no later public grant detail was found to confirm that the programme remains active after 2024.
- European School of Radiology, Annual Report 2023
The report records an ESOR Jo Li Scholarship, postponed from 2020 to 2024, in which a scholar from Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai undertook training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and thanked the Jo Li Trust. - University Hospitals Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham location information
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is located on Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham. - Birmingham City Council, Edgbaston ward profile
The ward profile identifies Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a major employer within Edgbaston ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence supports a grant-funded, partner-hosted training activity at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, but does not show that the Jo Li Trust has its own operational premises there.
- The Trust's registered address at 73 Trafalgar Road, Moseley is not treated as an operational site: available evidence does not establish that services, grant administration or other delivery occurs there.
- The latest publicly evidenced Birmingham activity located was the scholarship completed in 2024. The supplied financial record for the year ended 5 April 2025 confirms continuing charitable expenditure but does not identify grant recipients or locations.
- The Trust's grant-making and scholarship activity links Birmingham with overseas institutions, particularly China, supporting an international overall footprint; the current scale and continuity of that international activity are not publicly itemised.
Additional evidence needed
- The Jo Li Trust's latest trustees' annual report, accounts or a current grant-recipient list showing awards, delivery locations and dates.
- Confirmation from the Trust, ESOR or University Hospitals Birmingham that the ESOR Jo Li Scholarship remains scheduled or funded after the 2024 placement.
- Confirmation of whether the Moseley registered address is solely a trustee/correspondence address or is used for Trust administration.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Findings
An enabling rather than delivery-led role
The trust appears designed primarily to influence civic activity through grants and research, rather than through directly stated services. It may therefore have value as a connector or resource for organisations working on practical local needs.
Why it matters
Understanding the trust as an enabling organisation changes where to look for its impact: in the capacity, learning and activity of funded organisations, not only in its own visible programmes.
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“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“Sponsors Or Undertakes Research.”
Source:Charity Commission
A deliberately broad charitable remit
The trust appears to retain flexibility to support work across multiple, potentially connected determinants of wellbeing, including health, education, housing and environment. This may allow it to support unconventional combinations of activity rather than a single issue area.
Why it matters
Its breadth could make the trust relevant to organisations whose work crosses sector boundaries, particularly where disability inclusion intersects with living conditions, learning or place-based wellbeing.
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“Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing, Environment/conservation/heritage.”
Source:Charity Commission“People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission
- There is no evidence of the trust's location, geographic reach or scale of funding.
- The evidence does not show which charitable purposes receive most support or whether disability is a priority.
- No funded organisations, research outputs or current partnerships are identified.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists, grant amounts and descriptions of funded work.
- Annual reports, accounts or strategy documents showing priorities and geographic focus.
- Details of research commissioned or undertaken and how findings are used.