THE LANT CHARITY

Registered charity 1200608 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LANT TRUST

Giving grants to people in need and to organisations that meet the scheme's criteria, leasing out the playing fields and clubhouse in Meeting House Lane, Balsall Common as a community sports facility and owning the Reading Room in Berkswell which is run as a community village hall by the Reading Room Committee on behalf of the Lant Charity

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,4.1 THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ANY RECREATION GROUND, OPEN SPACE, READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT OR ANY PART THEREOF;4.2 RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN OR WORKING OR STUDYING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS. IN FULFILMENT OF THIS OBJECT THE TRUSTEES MAY PAY FOR SUCH ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES BY WAY OF DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANISATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SUCH ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES; AND4.3 TO MAKE GRANTS FOR OR TOWARDS THE STIPEND OF ANY RECTOR, VICAR OR CURATE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HOLDING OFFICE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND TOWARDS THE COST OF ERECTING AND MAINTAINING ANY NEW CHURCH OR PARSONAGE OR OF MAINTAINING ANY EXISTING CHURCH OR PARSONAGE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT OR OF EXTENSIONS TO ANY CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHURCH IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT OR TOWARDS THE COST OF ERECTING AND MAINTAINING ANY NEW CHURCH HALL OR OF MAINTAINING ANY EXISTING CHURCH HALL OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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

Causes: Disability · Religious Activities · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £76,062 at the end of the period, which the trustees consider to be in the region of 12 months of operating costs. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £2,665 for the year, driven by total payments exceeding total receipts. The trustees confirmed that the accounts were prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 and that no material matters came to their attention during the independent examination.

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.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Penelope Downingchair
• David Bruce Healey
• Diana Elizabeth Jagger
• Dinah Edwards
• Katherine Anna Riemer
• Peter Young · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Solihull

Income and spending

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Known funders

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