THE LAPID TRUST

Registered charity 328196 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We don't accept unsolicited grant applicationsOverall vision of connectedness and challenging isolationSupporting organisations working in the following areas:1. Health and medicine, particularly mental health2. Helping people thrive in old age3. The use of music and arts in relation to above4. Building trust and friendship between communities5. Responsive relief in disaster zones

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£79k

Latest spending

£58k

Registered

1989

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,973,042, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of £40,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated investment income of £78,752 against total expenditure of £57,508, resulting in a net movement in funds of £144,698 for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £40,000 equivalent to six months of charitable expenditure (reserves figure: £4.0m)

“The Trustees aim to maintain a minimum of free reserves in unrestricted funds of £40,000 equivalent to six months of charitable expenditure.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DANIEL CIGMAN
JULIE CIGMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
NAOMI BRAYBROOKE
Tamara Pekelman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£79k	£58k
05/04/2024	£67k	£66k
05/04/2023	£62k	£60k
05/04/2022	£65k	£48k
05/04/2021	£57k	£53k

Common questions

Is THE LAPID TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,973,042, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of £40,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity generated investment income of £78,752 against total expenditure of £57,508, resulting in a net movement in funds of £144,698 for the year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MACDAIBHIDH CHARITABLE TRUST.

THE MACDAIBHIDH CHARITABLE TRUST income £78k
THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
THE LIMBOURNE TRUST income £120k
HOBDEN FOUNDATION income £176k
THE RICEPUDS CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
THE 4814 TRUST income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE LAPID TRUST	£79k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MACDAIBHIDH CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£78k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST FY2025	£240k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LIMBOURNE TRUST FY2026	£120k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HOBDEN FOUNDATION FY2025	£176k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE RICEPUDS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£58k	—	above	—	no doubt

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