The Joel family of England was headed by three brothers, Jack, Woolf and Solomon, who made a fortune in diamond and gold mining in South Africa. Their father was Joel Joel (1836–1893) and their mother Catherine "Kate" Joel née Isaacs (1840–1917), a sister of Barnett Isaacs, later known as Barney Barnato .

Shortly before he died in 1992, Jim Joel established a charitable foundation, The Childwick Trust and on his death, the Trust was the principal beneficiary of his personal estate. In the years since his death, the Trust has distributed in the region of £89m to both local and national charities.

We support the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector in South Africa primarily by funding organisations that work at the coalface of the sector to improve access and the quality of early learning programmes for the most marginalised of young children and their families.

Royal Palace was a dark-coated bay horse with a white star and one white foot, bred and raced by Jim Joel, whose father and uncle were both major forces in British horse racing. He was sired by Ballymoss, the leading European racehorse of 1958 and a grandson of one of the most influential stallions in history, Nearco.

Applications are now open for the Jim Joel Fund Program to support the early childhood development (ECD) sector in South Africa mainly by funding the work of resource and training organisations (RTOs) who train and support ECD practitioners working in centre-based and non-centre based programmes.

In 1985 Jim Joel established the Childwick Trust based at the Stud on The Childwick Bury Estate. Jim Joel never married and following his death at the age of 97 in March 1992, all funds from the sale of his estate were channelled into the Childwick Trust.

Operating in South Africa under the name, the Jim Joel Fund, the Trustees of The Childwick Trust realised early on in South Africa’s transition to democracy that in order to mitigate against long term cycles of poverty, poor educational achievement, ill health, inequality and other socio-economic challenges, it needed to invest in the lives ...

Jim Joel Fund is offering grants to support the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector that works to improve access and the quality of early learning programmes for the most marginalised of young children and their families.

Bred by his owner Jim Joel and trained by Noel Murless, Royal Palace was a dual Classic winner who stayed in training at four and climaxed his career with a courageous victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Supporting education with a particular emphasis on Early Childhood Development the Trust operates in South Africa under the name of the Jim Joel Fund. This area of our Objects reflects the Joel family’s long involvement and extensive business interests in South Africa. We support charitable organisations in the south and south east of England.