THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1058109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST

This is a grant-making trust offering financial support to other UK registered charities, in particular faith-based organisations, working to advance the Christian faith & relieve poverty throughout the UK & overseas. Capital or project funding is favoured over revenue funding.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. 3. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 4. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY. 5. SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £26,528,252 at year-end, representing a net increase from the previous year. The Trust maintains an expendable endowment of £26,528,252, which is above its stated target of £24.1 million, and reports no borrowings or material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHENJOHNHAINES LUDLOWchair
• Annette Olga Marie Laing
• CHARLES WILLIAM DAVID LAING · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr PAUL MICHAEL PETER VAN DEN BOSCH
• Joanna Ruth Hobson
• SIMON DAVID MARTLE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST.

• THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST income £2.9m
• THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION income £624k
• THE LHR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £64k
• THE M O G CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.5m
• THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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