Beechwood Architecture Charity

Registered charity 1159927 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, THE LSA

To advance the education of the public in general (and particularly among the architectural profession) on the subject of architecture and to promote design and research for the public benefit in all aspects of architecture and to publish the useful results and proposals.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves were £4,745,989 at the end of the financial year. The trustees report that the charity is financially healthy and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity relies entirely on voluntary donations and legacies for its funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• London School of Architecture announces new head architectsjournal.co.uk · 27/08/2025
• London School of Architecture set to merge with UCEM bdonline.co.uk · 28/02/2025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lee Ivett — Head of School (source)
• Dr Neal Shasore — Head of School/Chief Executive (source)
• Samantha Hardingham — Academic Director (source)
• Will Hunter — Head of School/Chief Executive (source)

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (70% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Delwar Hossain
• John Charles Oliver · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lucy Clare Langdon
• Mr Nicholas John Bliss · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROLAND THOMAS ASHTON OAKSHETT
• Simon Allford · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 LITTLE CENTRE BEECHWOOD LTD.

• THE LITTLE CENTRE BEECHWOOD LTD income £224k
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) income £24.8m
• BEECH VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £143k
• THE BEAVERBROOK FOUNDATION income £118k
• THE ARBORICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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