THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£8.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£466k

Accounts grants total

£485k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (37 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (30 grantees)
Disability (27 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (20 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (15 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (12 grantees)
Amateur Sport (10 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (6 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (6 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (6 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (24 grantees)
Scotland (18 grantees)
Northern Ireland (16 grantees)
Oxfordshire (13 grantees)
Buckinghamshire (12 grantees)
Reading (8 grantees)
Hertfordshire (8 grantees)
West Berkshire (7 grantees)
Jersey (6 grantees)
Guernsey (6 grantees)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Lambrook School	—	£60k
new	GREENHOUSE SPORTS LIMITED	—	£60k
new	RNLI	—	£30k
new	OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCHES	—	£23k
new	AGE UK	—	£20k
new	ACTION FOR ME	—	£20k
new	THE LORD'S TAVERNERS	—	£15k
new	Caldicott School	—	£10k
down	London Air Ambulance	£60k	£10k
down	QUEST FOR LEARNING	£2k	£1k
not listed	OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	£200k	—
not listed	THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD	£50k	—
not listed	THE CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION	£35k	—
not listed	RAW WORKSHOP	£10k	—
not listed	THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION	£5k	—
not listed	OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH	£5k	—
not listed	MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT	£2k	—
not listed	My Name’s Doddie	£1k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Lambrook School	FY2025	£60k	Child and Youth
Greenhouse Sports	FY2025	£60k	Other
Fields in Trust (National Playing Fields Association)	FY2025	£50k	Cultural and Environmental
RNLI	FY2025	£30k	Other
National Emergencies Trust	FY2025	£30k	Other
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement	FY2025	£25k	Other
The Chiltern Centre	FY2025	£25k	Other
Oxfordshire Community Churches	FY2025	£23k	Social Welfare
Age UK	FY2025	£20k	Other
Sue Ryder	FY2025	£20k	Other
Action for ME	FY2025	£20k	Other
Lords Taverners	FY2025	£15k	Other
London Air Ambulance	FY2025	£10k	Other
Caldicott School	FY2025	£10k	Child and Youth
SOFEA	FY2025	£10k	Other
Little Green Pig	FY2025	£5k	Other
John Laing Charitable Trust	FY2025	£5k	Other
Stowe School	FY2025	£5k	Child and Youth
Henley Festival Trust	FY2025	£5k	Other
The London Construction Academy	FY2025	£5k	Other
Kids for Kids	FY2025	£5k	Other
NSPCC	FY2025	£3k	Child and Youth
The Paviors Charity	FY2025	£3k	Other
The Bradfield Foundation	FY2025	£3k	Other
Merseyside Community Foundation	FY2025	£3k	Other
Young Lives v Cancer	FY2025	£2k	Child and Youth
ASPIRE	FY2025	£1k	Medical Research
Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) Ltd	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Quest for Learning	FY2025	£1k	Child and Youth
Wycombe Youth Action	FY2025	£1k	Child and Youth
Muscular Dystrophy	FY2025	£1k	Medical Research
Action on Hearing Loss	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
DSACHIEVE	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Hearing Dogs for the Deaf	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Home Start Southern Oxfordshire	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Longridge on the Thames	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Macular Society	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Opera Prelude	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Oxfordshire Community Churches	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Response Organisation	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Riverside Counselling Service	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Swings & Smiles	FY2025	£1k	Social Welfare
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2024	£200k
London Air Ambulance	FY2024	£60k
Fields in Trust (National Playing Fields Association)	FY2024	£50k
Duke of Edinburgh's Award	FY2024	£50k
Charities Aid Foundation	FY2024	£35k
The Chiltern Centre	FY2024	£25k
National Emergencies Trust	FY2024	£25k
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement	FY2024	£25k
Sue Ryder	FY2024	£20k
RAW Workshop	FY2024	£10k
Henley Festival Trust	FY2024	£5k
The Tim Henman Foundation	FY2024	£5k
Oxfordshire Youth	FY2024	£5k
Little Green Pig	FY2024	£5k
The Bradfield Foundation	FY2024	£3k
Quest for Learning	FY2024	£2k
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2024	£2k
My Name’s Doddie	FY2024	£1k
Rennie Grove Hospice Care	FY2024	£1k
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices	FY2024	£1k
Home Start Southern Oxfordshire	FY2024	£1k
Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) Ltd	FY2024	£1k
Isabel Hospice	FY2024	£1k
Maggie’s Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust	FY2024	£1k
Hearing Dogs for the Deaf	FY2024	£1k
British Wheelchair Sports Foundation Ltd	FY2024	£1k
Be Free Young Carers Ltd	FY2024	£1k
The Institute of Cancer Research	FY2024	£1k
The Princes Trust	FY2024	£1k
Thames Hospice	FY2024	£1k
St Lawrence College	FY2023	£250k	Sports hall appeal (25,000 per annum for two years)
Duke of Edinburgh's Award	FY2023	£50k	Core support
Fields in Trust (National Playing Fields Association)	FY2023	£50k	Core support
RNLI	FY2023	£50k
Oxfordshire Community Foundation	FY2023	£50k	Grant (3rd of 3)
Livability	FY2023	£35k	Grant (2023 2nd of 3)
Greenhouse Sports	FY2023	£30k
The Chiltern Centre	FY2023	£25k	One-off donation
St Lawrence College	FY2023	£25k	Grant (2nd of 2)
National Emergencies Trust	FY2023	£25k
Livability	FY2023	£22k	Grant (2nd of 3)
Action for ME	FY2023	£20k
Sue Ryder	FY2023	£20k
The Silver Line	FY2023	£20k
My Cancer My Choice.	FY2023	£10k
John Laing Charitable Trust	FY2023	£10k	One-off donation
RAW Workshop	FY2023	£10k
The British Red Cross	FY2023	£10k
The Amber Trusts	FY2023	£10k
Henley Rugby Charitable Trust	FY2023	£8k
Little Green Pig	FY2023	£5k	Grant (3rd of 3)
Henley Festival Trust	FY2023	£5k
The Lord's Taverners	FY2023	£5k
Swiss Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	FY2023	£5k
NSPCC	FY2023	£4k
Marie Curie Cancer Care	FY2023	£2k
Make-a-Wish Foundation	FY2023	£2k
Treloar Trust	FY2023	£2k
The Princes Trust	FY2023	£1k
Royal National College for the Blind	FY2023	£1k
Rotary Club of Stort Valley	FY2023	£1k
Riverside Counselling Service	FY2023	£1k
Rennie Grove Hospice Care	FY2023	£1k
Peace Hospice Care	FY2023	£1k
North Herts Hospice care Association (Garden House Hospice)	FY2023	£1k
Medical Detection Dogs	FY2023	£1k
Magglas Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust	FY2023	£1k
Hearing Dogs for the Deaf	FY2023	£1k
County Air Ambulance	FY2023	£1k
British Wheelchair Sports Foundation Ltd	FY2023	£1k
Alexander Devine Childrens Cancer Trust	FY2023	£1k
The Institute of Cancer Research	FY2023	£1k
Duke of Edinburgh's Award	FY2022	£53k
British Red Cross	FY2022	£50k
Fields in Trust (National Playing Fields Association)	FY2022	£40k
The Silver Line (Age UK)	FY2022	£20k
Sue Ryder	FY2022	£20k
National Emergencies Trust	FY2022	£20k
Groundwork East	FY2022	£13k
RAW Workshop	FY2022	£10k
David Laing Foundation	FY2022	£10k
Little Green Pig	FY2022	£10k
RNLI	FY2022	£5k
The Lord's Taverners	FY2022	£5k
Frank Haines Memorial Trust	FY2022	£5k
Henley Festival Trust	FY2022	£5k
Make a Wish Foundation	FY2022	£5k
Medical Detection Dogs	FY2022	£5k
Princes Trust	FY2022	£5k
NSPCC (2)	FY2022	£4k
Alzheimers Society	FY2022	£3k
NSPCC	FY2022	£2k
The Institute of Cancer Research (2)	FY2022	£2k
The Pepper Foundation (2)	FY2022	£2k
CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children	FY2022	£1k
Alexander Devine Childrens Cancer Trust	FY2022	£1k
Swings & Smiles	FY2022	£1k
Quest for Learning	FY2022	£1k
Trusts for Oxfordshire’s Environment Ltd	FY2022	£1k
Marine Conservation	FY2022	£1k
Guildford Undetected Tumour Screening	FY2022	£1k
The Cure Parkinson's Trust (2)	FY2022	£1k
Thames Hospice	FY2022	£1k
Abbeyfield Reading Society Ltd	FY2022	£1k
Action on Hearing Loss	FY2022	£1k
British Wheelchair Sports Foundation Ltd	FY2022	£1k
The Charlie Waller Trust	FY2022	£1k
Headway -The Brain Injury Association	FY2022	£1k
Hearing Dogs for the Deaf	FY2022	£1k
Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) Ltd	FY2022	£1k
Keech Hospice	FY2022	£1k
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2022	£1k
The Paviors’ Company Livery Trust	FY2022	£1k
Peace Hospice Care	FY2022	£1k
Rennie Grove Hospice Care	FY2022	£1k
The Chiltern Centre	FY2022	£1k
Bishop’s Stortford Youth Project Limited	FY2022	£1k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 466000 vs reference 484500 (3.8% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.