THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST

Registered charity 211884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

This is a grant making trust offering financial support to a wide range of UK registered charities working to advance the Christian faith & relieve poverty in its broadest sense, both throughout the UK, in developing countries & overseas. Capital or project funding is favoured over revenue funding.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £9,374,530, with total net assets at £74,893,201. The trustees report that the level of reserves is well above their policy target, enabling continued grant expenditure. The auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paula Joan Stephanie Blacker — Chair (source)
• Rev. Charles Edward Burch — Chair (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~41.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAULA JOAN STEPHANIE BLACKERchair
• CHARLES WILLIAM DAVID LAING · trustee of 3 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER MAURICE LAING · trustee of 2 other charities
• MRS ALEX GREGORY · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £725k
• THE BEATRICE GILMORE CHARITABLE TRUST income £142k
• JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.5m
• IMPACT GIVING UK TRUST income £2.5m
• THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION income £8.1m
• THE LAUNAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £10.9m

Side by side with its peers

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