THE CAROLE AND GEOFFREY LAWSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 801751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trustee's policy is to consider appeals from charitable causes with a previous track record covering the welfare of children, relief of poverty advancement of arts and education.

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES.

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 · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

Per the trustees' representations, the charity confirms that its financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing that current and future funding sources are adequate for its needs. The trustees assert that all accounting records have been made available for audit and that the financial statements are free of material misstatements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by ESW Chartered Accountants. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 22/03/2024, 46 days after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~236.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIELLA SHARON LAWSON
• EDWARD COLIN SAMUEL LAWSON
• Mireille Abujawdeh · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 CLARKSON FOUNDATION.

• THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION income £582k
• THE WOLFSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.3m
• THE 4 BETTER FOUNDATION income £47k
• THE GOODMAN FOUNDATION income £4.7m
• THE DESMOND FOUNDATION income £33k
• ROBERT HALL CHARITY income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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