THE ALLEN LANE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 248031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant-making Trust

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased from £21,941,915 to £24,513,827 over the year. Unrestricted funds are reported as part of the total funds, though the specific unrestricted balance is not detailed in the provided balance sheet excerpt.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

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: 19.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Delyth Hitchcockchair
• Amberley Emma Carter
• Clara Madeleine Teale-Mulcare
• Elaine Strachan
• FREDRICA TEALE
• Michael Charles George Firth
• PHILIP WALSH
• ZOE TEALE

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SANDERSON FOUNDATION.

• THE SANDERSON FOUNDATION income £236k
• PARK LANE FOUNDATION income £452k
• WINDSOR ROAD FOUNDATION income £101k
• THE RUBIN FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST income £205k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• BNJC income £4.1m

Side by side with its peers

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