THE LAWSON TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1171822 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The CIO is a grant making charity concentrating support to organisations in the south east of England. The trustees concentrate their support on the following:? Arts and Heritage? Education? Environment? Health? Social & economic disadvantageThe trustees do not support:? Individuals? Non registered charities? Overseas charities? Political parties? Promotion of religion

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tonbridge and Malling, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net expenditure of £518,975 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by investment losses and grant distributions. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves (the general fund) stood at £115,889, which the trustees estimate provides sufficient funds to enable the Charity to function for a six-month period. The Charity maintains a large designated capital fund of £20,545,796 to support its long-term investment strategy and grant-making objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (14 freehold); recorded price paid £5.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 14.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony Michael Hooperchair
• Katharine Lewis
• MICHAEL ANTHONY NORRIE
• Paul Robert Alexander Marsh
• Robert Andrew Blundell
• Sarah Alexandra Hill
• Sarah Playle
• Zina Hunt

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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