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

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

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.

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 Hooper
• 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 · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGLISH REGION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH CIO.

• THE ENGLISH REGION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH CIO income £1.7m
• THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATION income £466k
• JCD FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE ANGUS LAWSON MEMORIAL TRUST income £540k
• SHREE LOHANA MAHAJAN LEICESTER CIO income £247k
• THE GALE FOUNDATION TRUST CIO income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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