THE DAVID LEAN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1067074 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's activities to achieve its objects include making awards (1) to other charities whose aims include similar aims (2) for Film student scholarships

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO CULTIVATE AND IMPROVE PUBLIC TASTE IN THE VISUAL ARTS IN PARTICULAR BY STIMULATING ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE FIELD OF FILM PRODUCTION ( IN PARTICULAR INCLUDING SCREENPLAY WRITING AND FILM PRODUCTION AND FILM EDITING) AND BY ENCOURAGING A HIGH STANDARD OF ART AND TECHNIQUE IN PERSONS ENGAGED IN SUCH FILM PRODUCTION AND BY ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STANDARD OF THE ARTS SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES OF FILM PRODUCTION. 2) TO BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS OR OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECT OR OBJECTS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT TO SUPPORT OR ESTABLISH

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stafford, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern because the trustees intend to liquidate the charity and transfer its assets to the NFTS Foundation. Despite this impending closure, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £7,597,290 at the year end, significantly exceeding its stated policy target of 12 months' support costs (£69,508).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Crawley). Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN PAUL MOULTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sally Ruth Beard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Turner Laing · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.