THE ANGUS LAWSON MEMORIAL TRUST

Registered charity 1117735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Angus Lawson Memorial Trust supports projects engaged in alleviating the suffering of children and young people in the UK and overseas. Funding is primarily provided to grassroots projects that have clearly identified objectives where the outcomes can be monitored and evaluated. This ensures a high social return on any investment made by the Trust and its Donors.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £356,620, which is below the stated policy target of holding sufficient funds to honour pre-committed grants and cover a three-month employee notice period (calculated as £350,000). The charity reported a net movement in funds of -£78,056 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £845,882 to £767,827.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Angus Lawson Memorial Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 9.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS JOHN ADAMS LAWSONchair
• ALEX DE WINTON
• Debbie Hofmeyr
• EDWARD OLIVER HUTTON
• Fiona Fairbairn
• Geoffrey Love
• Henry Yorke
• JONATHAN POTTER
• KARA MARGARET LAWSON
• Rebecca Pirt

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Burundi · Cambodia · Eswatini · Ghana · India · Kenya · Liverpool City · Malawi · Mozambique · Nottinghamshire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

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

• THE LAWSON TRUST CIO income £676k
• THE HERD LAWSON AND MURIEL LAWSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £285k
• THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATION income £466k
• LAWSON BECKMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £239k
• THE LAWS FOUNDATION income £240k
• THE ANGELA WEBSTER EDUCATION TRUST income £742k

Side by side with its peers

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