THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 278461 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A grant-making trust offering financial support to other charities/voluntary organisations. Grants are made for a wide range of charitable purposes, with a particular interest in environmental & conservation projects & in supporting the homeless, the elderly & their carers & disadvantaged young people. Projects in Norfolk, Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire & Malta may be of particular interest.

Objects

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 · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £799,192 and an expendable endowment of £22,290,598, resulting in total funds of £23,089,790. The trustees report that they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity generated a net movement in funds of £1,791,932 for the year, driven by significant investment gains.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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 05/04/2026)

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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Catherine Beatrice Jane Gregorychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexander Paul Finkenrath · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Elizabeth Laing Gregory
• EDWARD CHARLES KIRBY LAING
• LADY LAING
• NICHOLAS JOHN GREGORY
• Robert Paul Girdlestone

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire · Malta · Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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 £692k
• THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION income £8.1m
• DAVID LAING FOUNDATION income £350k
• JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.5m
• THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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