DAVID LAING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 278462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making gifts to a wide range of charities with the emphasis on youth, disability and the arts

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

£350k

Latest spending

£277k

Registered

1979

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general funds total £11,138,917, with total funds carried forward at £11,214,165. The trustees have resolved to retain liquid reserves of not less than 2.5% of the current market value of the fund, holding £352,797 which equates to 3.15% of total charity funds. The auditors confirmed that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: not less than 2.5% of the current market value of the fund (held: £11.1m)

“The trustees have resolved to retain liquid reserves of not less than 2.5% of the current market value of the fund.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The David Laing Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

CHARLES WILLIAM DAVID LAING · trustee of 3 other charities
Dominic Adrian Hopkins · trustee of 1 other charity
Frances Mary Laing · trustee of 1 other charity
John Benjamin Laing
MR JOHN STUART LEWIS DL FCIS

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£350k	£277k
05/04/2024	£264k	£451k
05/04/2023	£198k	£542k
05/04/2022	£190k	£286k
05/04/2021	£162k	£221k

Common questions

Is DAVID LAING FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted general funds total £11,138,917, with total funds carried forward at £11,214,165. The trustees have resolved to retain liquid reserves of not less than 2.5% of the current market value of the fund, holding £352,797 which equates to 3.15% of total charity funds. The auditors confirmed that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited.

Who funds DAVID LAING FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DAVID LAING FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION, THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST, THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION, THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION.

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.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAVID LAING — trustee here and at THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION	FY2023	£30k	Environment & Heritage
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£15k	Environment & Heritage
THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION	FY2024	£10k	Sir John Laing Statue
THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION	FY2022	£10k

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
FRIENDS OF ACHIEZER ARAD	1	£41k
THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION	1	£15k
THE KATE & JUSTIN ROSE FOUNDATION (UK)	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION income £8.1m
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION income £171k
DAVID YARROW FOUNDATION income £972k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £192k
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
DAVID URI MEMORIAL TRUST income £357k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
DAVID LAING FOUNDATION	£350k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION FY2025	£8.1m	—	within	—	no doubt
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION FY2024	£171k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
DAVID YARROW FOUNDATION FY2023	£972k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£192k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION FY2025	£463k	—	above	—	no doubt

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