THE MARTIN LAING FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£8.0m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

£366k

Accounts grants total

£353k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Beatrice Laing Trust is closed to new applications until further notice. Applicants must read the specific guidelines for the other three Trusts and contact the Trusts before submitting an application if in any doubt.

Summarised from www.laingfamilytrusts.org.uk · www.laingfamilytrusts.org.uk/what-we-fund/ · www.laingfamilytrusts.org.uk/what-we-fund/exclusions/ on 01/09/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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 (19 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (13 grantees)
Disability (11 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (11 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (10 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (10 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (8 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (5 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (5 grantees)
Amateur Sport (4 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Norfolk (15 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (11 grantees)
Scotland (7 grantees)
Suffolk (7 grantees)
Northern Ireland (6 grantees)
Netherlands (4 grantees)
Ireland (3 grantees)
Belgium (3 grantees)
Germany (3 grantees)
Essex (3 grantees)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2024

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	FY2023	FY2024
new	Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti	—	£11k
new	THE PUSHKIN TRUST	—	£10k
new	All Saints Church, Teversham	—	£10k
new	DAVID LAING FOUNDATION	—	£10k
new	Diabetes UK	—	£10k
new	Worshipful Company of Paviors	—	£5k
new	FareShare East of England	—	£5k
new	David Shepherd Conservation Foundation	—	£5k
not listed	Richmond Foundation	£27k	—
not listed	STUDENTS' EDUCATION TRUST	£15k	—
not listed	NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST	£10k	—
not listed	The Salvation Army UK HQ	£10k	—
not listed	British Red Cross UK/International	£5k	—
not listed	Air Training Corps - 104 (City of Cambridge) Squadron	£5k	—
not listed	Ormiston Children & Families Trust	£5k	—
not listed	Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust	£5k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Diocese In Europe	FY2024	£195k	St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta - Restoration Appeal
Norfolk Community Foundation	FY2024	£20k	‘Nourishing Norfolk’ Initiative
Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti	FY2024	£11k	Raising awareness of Malta’s heritage through museums, exhibitions & publications — annual grant
The Pushkin Trust	FY2024	£10k	Baronscourt Days 2023 — cross-community activities for primary school children
Welsh National Opera	FY2024	£10k	WNO Community Programmes & Engagement - WNO Teach
All Saints Church, Teversham	FY2024	£10k	Essential repairs
The Norfolk Churches Trust	FY2024	£10k	Religion
John Laing Charitable Trust	FY2024	£10k	Laing Pensioners' Summer Outings 2023
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2024	£10k	Services in Norfolk
David Laing Foundation	FY2024	£10k	Sir John Laing Statue
WWF-UK	FY2024	£10k	Community-Based Marine Restoration Project in the Firth of Forth
Diabetes UK	FY2024	£10k	Clinical Champions Programme
East Anglian Air Ambulance	FY2024	£10k	Blood on Board
Worshipful Company of Paviors	FY2024	£5k	Education & Training
Hands Around The World	FY2024	£5k	Overseas Development
FareShare East of England	FY2024	£5k	Social Welfare & Community
The Brainwave Centre	FY2024	£5k	Health & Medical Welfare
David Shepherd Conservation Foundation	FY2024	£5k	Environment & Heritage
St Anne's Church, Limehouse	FY2024	£4k	Religion (via Charities Aid Foundation)
St Edmund's Society	FY2024	£3k	Education & Training (via Charities Aid Foundation)
The Ware Museum Trust	FY2024	£3k	Environment & Heritage (via Charities Aid Foundation)
St Andrew's Church, Guist	FY2024	£2k	Religion
The Feed Foundation	FY2024	£2k	Social Welfare & Community (via Charities Aid Foundation)
Musical Keys	FY2024	£1k	Social Welfare & Community (via Charities Aid Foundation)
Choppin's Charity	FY2024	£500	Social Welfare & Community (via Charities Aid Foundation)
Diocese In Europe	FY2023	£330k	Religion
Richmond Foundation	FY2023	£27k	Overseas Development
Norfolk Community Foundation	FY2023	£20k	Social Welfare & Community
Students Education Trust	FY2023	£15k	Overseas Development
Welsh National Opera	FY2023	£10k	Cultural & Environmental
The Norfolk Churches Trust	FY2023	£10k	Religion
John Laing Charitable Trust	FY2023	£10k	Social Welfare & Community
Norfolk Wildlife Trust	FY2023	£10k	Cultural & Environmental
WWF-UK	FY2023	£10k	Cultural & Environmental
The Salvation Army UK HQ	FY2023	£10k	Social Welfare & Community
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2023	£10k	Health & Medical Welfare
East Anglian Air Ambulance	FY2023	£10k	Health & Medical Welfare
British Red Cross UK/International	FY2023	£5k	Overseas Development
Air Training Corps - 104 (City of Cambridge) Squadron	FY2023	£5k	Children & Young People
Ormiston Children & Families Trust	FY2023	£5k	Children & Young People
Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust	FY2023	£5k	Cultural & Environmental
Norwich Puppet Theatre	FY2023	£5k	Cultural & Environmental
Action for M.E.	FY2023	£5k	Health & Medical Welfare
The Brainwave Centre	FY2023	£5k	Health & Medical Welfare
Hands Around The World	FY2023	£5k	Overseas Development
ABF The Soldiers' Charity	FY2023	£5k	Social Welfare & Community
Age UK Norwich	FY2023	£5k	Social Welfare & Community
Purfleet Trust	FY2023	£5k	Social Welfare & Community
Diocese In Europe	FY2023	£3k	Religion (via CAF)
The Ware Museum Trust	FY2023	£3k	Cultural & Environmental (via CAF)
Little Ouse Headwaters Charity	FY2023	£3k	Cultural & Environmental (via CAF)
St Silas Church, Pentonville	FY2023	£3k	Religion (via CAF)
Assist Trust	FY2023	£3k	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
Aylsham & District Care Trust	FY2023	£3k	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
Earthwatch Institute	FY2023	£2k	Cultural & Environmental (via CAF)
Sunbeams Play	FY2023	£2k	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
The Hamlet Centre Trust	FY2023	£2k	Health & Medical Welfare (via CAF)
Access Migrant Support	FY2023	£2k	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
Shine (East Norfolk)	FY2023	£2k	Children & Young People (via CAF)
Beyond Conflict	FY2023	£1k	Overseas Development (via CAF)
Butterfly Conservation	FY2023	£1k	Cultural & Environmental (via CAF)
Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind	FY2023	£1k	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
Choppin's Charity	FY2023	£500	Social Welfare & Community (via CAF)
Diocese In Europe	FY2022	£320k	Religion
Ormiston Children & Families Trust	FY2022	£26k	Child & Youth
St John Ambulance	FY2022	£25k	Health & Medicine
Priscilla Bacon Norfolk Hospice Care	FY2022	£25k	Health & Medicine
Charities Aid Foundation	FY2022	£20k	Social Welfare
Students Education Trust	FY2022	£15k	Overseas Development
Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti	FY2022	£10k	Overseas Development
Welsh National Opera	FY2022	£10k	Cultural & Environmental
The Pushkin Trust	FY2022	£10k	Child & Youth
WNO Teach Programme Workshops	FY2022	£10k	Cultural & Environmental
Diabetes UK	FY2022	£10k	Health & Medicine
East Anglian Air Ambulance	FY2022	£10k	Health & Medicine
Hear for Norfolk	FY2022	£10k	Health & Medicine
The Norfolk Churches Trust	FY2022	£10k	Religion
Richmond Foundation	FY2022	£9k	Overseas Development
Malta Aviation Museum Foundation	FY2022	£9k	Overseas Development
Oakhaven Hospice	FY2022	£5k	Health & Medicine
Hands Around The World	FY2022	£5k	Overseas Development
Norfolk & Norwich Scope Association	FY2022	£5k	Health & Medicine
Macmillan Cancer Support	FY2022	£5k	Health & Medicine
Action for M. E.	FY2022	£5k	Health & Medicine
British Red Cross UK/International	FY2022	£5k	Overseas Development
ABF The Soldiers' Charity	FY2022	£5k	Social Welfare
The Worshipful Company of Barbers	FY2022	£5k	Child & Youth
The Anne Robson Trust	FY2022	£5k	Health & Medicine
Ware Museum Trust	FY2022	£3k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
Princes Trust	FY2022	£3k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
The Salvation Army UK HQ	FY2022	£3k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
Cdsis	FY2022	£3k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
Make a Wish	FY2022	£3k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
Open Road West Norfolk	FY2022	£2k	Social Welfare (via CAF)
War Child	FY2022	£2k	Social Welfare (via CAF)

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 366482 vs reference 352982 (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.