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.

Objects

FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves rose to £48,575,535, supported by a net movement in funds of £4,057,467 which included a gain on investments of £3,932,230. The charity reported total income of £1,603,350 against total expenditure of £1,479,658, resulting in a surplus for the year. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £130,000 - £140,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 31/12/2025)

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: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

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

• THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION income £624k
• THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST income £2.9m
• THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION income £8.1m
• THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £692k
• THE BKL FOUNDATION income £36k
• DAVID LAING FOUNDATION income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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