JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 236852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAING'S CHARITABLE TRUST

The objects of the Trust are the relief of poverty incapacity or sickness or for the advancement of education or religion or such other charitable purposes generally as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit. Trustees also have special regard to the relief of poverty and hardship of former employees of John Laing or their dependents.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £80.1 million in unrestricted funds, with total assets reaching £80.1 million at year-end 2025. Per the trustees' report, the investment portfolio increased in value to £78.8 million, generating significant net gains that contributed to a positive net movement in funds of £7.1 million. The trustees confirm sufficient unrestricted funds exist to remain operational on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Martin Laing — former JLCT 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 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Garnet Fosterchair
• Alexandra Catherine Beatrice Jane Gregory · trustee of 2 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER BRIAN WAPLES
• CHRISTOPHER MAURICE LAING · trustee of 2 other charities
• LYNETTE KRIGE
• Pam Orchard

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

Operates in: Australia · Netherlands · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Alexandra Catherine Beatrice Jane Gregory — trustee here and at THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION
• CHRISTOPHER MAURICE LAING — trustee here and at THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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.

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 NANI HUYU CHARITABLE TRUST income £293k
• THE JOHN MACLEOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £226k
• THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £224k
• ALPHA RELIEF FUND income £113k
• KTRUST LIMITED income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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