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LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST

Registered charity 1090412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LGFL

To Advance Education, in particular by providing and assisting in the provision of information and communications technology to London Schools, for the benefit of the children attending those schools.To help with the objectives the trust may procure and enter into contracts to provide services on behalf of other bodies, such as Academies, Government, Health Authorities and other Public Services.

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Latest income
£26.5m
Latest spending
£24.4m
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £3.02 million with net assets increasing to £5.53 million. The trustees report that the pension fund is in a significant surplus of £4.7 million and the balance sheet remains robust with total assets close to £34.7 million. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to meet liabilities as they fall due and is prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: broadband connectivity and related services
“The major part of LGfL's income continues to be derived directly from schools and MATs for the provision of broadband connectivity and related services including internet filtering, e-mail hosting, e-mail filtering, anti-virus protection, web hosting, secure remote access and online educational resources and devices.” — page 17
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Payment of £9,042 to Chairman P Robinson for professional services.
“Permission has been obtained from the Charity Commission in order to pay for the professional services of the Chairman (P Robinson). During the year £9,042 including expenses were paid for these services (2024: £8, 185). No emoluments or expenses were paid to any other director during the current or preceding year.” — page 52
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Payment to Chairman for professional services
“Permission has been obtained from the Charity Commission in order to pay for the professional services of the Chairman (P Robinson). During the year £9,042 including expenses were paid for these services (2024: £8, 185).” — page 52
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£26.5m
Total spending
£24.4m
Reserves (reported)
£5.3m
Employees
43

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% 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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£26.5m£24.4m
31/03/2024£25.6m£26.6m
31/03/2023£25.7m£27.8m
31/03/2022£35.6m£36.1m
31/03/2021£44.4m£46.6m

Common questions

Is LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £3.02 million with net assets increasing to £5.53 million. The trustees report that the pension fund is in a significant surplus of £4.7 million and the balance sheet remains robust with total assets close to £34.7 million. The charity confirms it has adequate resources to meet liabilities as they fall due and is prepared on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Menzies LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE BLACKBURN DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED1£632k
CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST1£110k
THE MERCHANT VENTURERS CHARITY1£42k
THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST1£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DARTFORD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL FUND.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST£26.5m——unclear—no doubt
DARTFORD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL FUND FY2025£128k—0unclear—no doubt
ECOLE FRANCAISE DE LONDRES JACQUES PREVERT LTD FY2024£3.0m—0unclear—no doubt
LAO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TRUST FY2025£234k——unclear—no doubt
SOUTH WEST GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST FY2025£2.3m——unclear—no doubt
THE ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£883k—0unclear—no doubt

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