AL Elevation

Registered charity 1169320 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LAW FAMILY EDUCATIONAL TRUST

To advance education and training in the United Kingdom by sponsoring and funding schools, higher educational entities, educational programmes, projects and facilities and to advance amateur sports to those in education.

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

Latest income

£2.3m

Latest spending

£4.2m

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds no financial reserves and reports a net deficit in funds of £5,191,049. The trustees confirm that the charity is wholly funded by AL Philanthropies, with trustee Andrew Law confirming continued financial support for the foreseeable future to ensure liabilities can be met.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: AL Philanthropies (100% of income)

“The total donations received from AL Philanthropies in the year was £2,235,000” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy

“The Charity holds no financial reserves at the end of the financial year. The Trustees have assessed that a formal reserve fund is not required because the charitable activities are funded as required by AL Philanthropies and operating costs are minimal.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income

£2.3m

Total spending

£4.2m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

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: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ANDREW ERIC LAWchair · trustee of 1 other charity
PHILIP JOHN MOSS
Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould OBE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£2.3m	£4.2m
31/08/2024	£3.3m	£2.8m
31/08/2023	£1.8m	£2.9m
31/08/2022	£2.0m	£2.0m
31/08/2021	£2.5m	£1.7m

Common questions

Is AL Elevation financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds no financial reserves and reports a net deficit in funds of £5,191,049. The trustees confirm that the charity is wholly funded by AL Philanthropies, with trustee Andrew Law confirming continued financial support for the foreseeable future to ensure liabilities can be met. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited.

Who funds AL Elevation?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AL Elevation as a grant recipient include AL Philanthropies.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
AL Philanthropies	FY2023	£13.0m	Support for Laurus Trust/Multi Academy Trust
AL Philanthropies	FY2025	£3.8m	Support for Laurus Trust/MAT
AL Philanthropies	FY2024	£1.9m	Grant funding
AL Philanthropies	FY2022	£1.5m

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF MASAT MOSHE	1	£1.6m
THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£482k
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	1	£371k
THE WIGODER FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£202k
CHK Foundation	1	£150k
Mercer Family Charitable Foundation	1	£50k
CATKIN PUSSYWILLOW CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£39k
THE LOWER GREEN FOUNDATION	1	£22k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION.

THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION income £199k
THE ALTITUDE FOUNDATION income £159k
THE FRIENDS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL income £2.2m
THE EGGAR'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ALTON, SITE FOUNDATION income £150k
JLE income £3.2m
University of California Trust income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
AL Elevation	£2.3m	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION FY2024	£199k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE ALTITUDE FOUNDATION FY2025	£159k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRIENDS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL FY2025	£2.2m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE EGGAR'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ALTON, SITE FOUNDATION FY2025	£150k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
JLE FY2025	£3.2m	—	—	above	—	noted

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