THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 264299 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

This is a grant-making trust offering financial support to other UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable purposes throughout the UK & overseas. Capital or project funding is favoured over revenue funding.

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

Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£23.9m

Registered

1972

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that staff costs were net of contributions recovered from related Laing Family Trusts, resulting in a net cost of £102,748. The Foundation shares four full-time staff members with these connected trusts. Employment costs outstanding at year-end amounted to £58,441.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £110,001 - £120,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“One employee received emoluments in the £110,000 - £120,000 band during the year” — page 17

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee received emoluments in the £110,000 - £120,000 band during the year” — page 17

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2023) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 31/12/2024)

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£23.9m

Cost of raising funds

£124k

Reserves (reported)

£44.5m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~22.4 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: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (07/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Rev CHARLES EDWARD BURCHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
Alison Claire Laing
Dr Frederick Terence Wyndham Weller Lewis
SIMON WEBLEY · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£2.0m	£23.9m
31/12/2023	£2.2m	£3.0m
31/12/2022	£2.3m	£3.2m
31/12/2021	£2.1m	£4.4m
31/12/2020	£2.1m	£4.6m

Common questions

Is THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that staff costs were net of contributions recovered from related Laing Family Trusts, resulting in a net cost of £102,748. The Foundation shares four full-time staff members with these connected trusts. Employment costs outstanding at year-end amounted to £58,441. Its FY2024 accounts were audited.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £110,001 - £120,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE LYNNE AND NIGEL ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£750

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 GREG & ROSIE LOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST income £148k
BUILDING FOUNDATIONS income £108k
NOBLE CONNECTION income £118k
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 105CN FOUNDATION income £181k
THE HOSKING CHARITABLE TRUST income £415k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION	£2.0m	£110,001 - £120,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£725k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GREG & ROSIE LOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST FY2024	£148k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BUILDING FOUNDATIONS FY2025	£108k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NOBLE CONNECTION FY2025	£118k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 105CN FOUNDATION FY2025	£181k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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