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THE LAUNAN CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1070813 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is a grant making trust applying funds to charitable causes at the trustees discretion.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£10.9m
Latest spending
£3.4m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £7,568,306 at the year end, derived largely from a legacy estate. The trustees report that the charity's income source is entirely dependent on the residue of the Laurence Silman estate, with further funds expected upon the sale of property in 2026. The trustees consider the charity to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: twofold: (a) only to commit to future grants for which cash will be available; and (b) to maintain, and review at each Trustee meeting, cash flow forecasts on a rolling 12-month basis. (held: £7.6m)
“As the Trust does not have any ongoing fixed costs, the policy with regards to reserves is twofold: (a) only to commit to future grants for which cash will be available; and (b) to maintain, and review at each Trustee meeting, cash flow forecasts on a rolling 12-month basis.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Grants to The Bard of Pittsburgh Theatre Company Limited of £300,000, of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Annouchka De Andrade are Directors.
“Grants to The Bard of Pittsburgh Theatre Company Limited of £300,000 (2024: £Nil) of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Annouchka De Andrade are Directors.” — page 22
“Grants to Keep Publishing Independent of £3,000,000 (2024: £Nil) of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Steven Froelich are Directors.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Grants to Keep Publishing Independent of £3,000,000, of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Steven Froelich are Directors.
“Grants to The Bard of Pittsburgh Theatre Company Limited of £300,000 (2024: £Nil) of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Annouchka De Andrade are Directors.” — page 22
“Grants to Keep Publishing Independent of £3,000,000 (2024: £Nil) of which Trustees Dr Robert Silman and Steven Froelich are Directors.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Extraordinary Publications Limited
“This was originally called ‘Extraordinary Publishing’ but the name was changed to avoid confusion with its wholly owned subsidiary Extraordinary Publications Limited (EPL) trading as Extraordinary Books (EB)” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Nash Harvey Group LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLICATIONS LIMITED — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 December 2025)
  • Equity: £-17k
  • Average employees: 0.02
EXTRAORDINARY PUBLICATIONS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • No intra-group transactions or balances are disclosed in the provided text, as the profit and loss account is excluded.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Total income
£10.9m
Total spending
£3.4m
Reserves (reported)
£7.6m
Employees
1

Reported reserves equal ~26.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£10.9m£3.4m
05/04/2024£20k£8k
05/04/2023£15k£14k
05/04/2022£26k£19k
05/04/2021£79£8k

Common questions

Is THE LAUNAN CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £7,568,306 at the year end, derived largely from a legacy estate. The trustees report that the charity's income source is entirely dependent on the residue of the Laurence Silman estate, with further funds expected upon the sale of property in 2026. The trustees consider the charity to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Nash Harvey Group LLP.

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BEIS KOSOV1£2k

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE LAUNAN CHARITABLE TRUST£10.9m—0unclear—no doubt
LOUIS NICHOLAS RESIDUARY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£994k—0unclear—no doubt
FUTURE SCOPE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£236k—0above—no doubt
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£192k—0unclear—no doubt
THE LYNNE AND NIGEL ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£284k—0above—no doubt
JOAN AINSLIE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£278k—0unclear—no doubt

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