DAVID LAING FOUNDATION

Charity number: 278462
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

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

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 05 April 2025

Total income: £349,599
Total expenditure: £276,749

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Education/training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • Disability
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Overseas Aid/famine Relief
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Amateur Sport
  • Animals
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
  • Northamptonshire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 07 September 1979: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Trust
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

5 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
John Benjamin Laing Trustee 26 March 2024
None on record
Dominic Adrian Hopkins Trustee 23 September 2023
MUSEUM OF LONDON ARCHAEOLOGY
Received: On time
CHARLES WILLIAM DAVID LAING Trustee 01 January 2023
THE PAVIORS' CHARITY
Received: On time
THE LONDON CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY
Received: On time
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST
Received: On time
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST
Received: On time
THE EARLY OPERA COMPANY LIMITED
Received: On time
Frances Mary Laing Trustee
THE WADENHOE TRUST
Received: On time
MR JOHN STUART LEWIS DL FCIS Trustee
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 05/04/2021 05/04/2022 05/04/2023 05/04/2024 05/04/2025
Total gross income £162.36k £189.72k £197.65k £264.38k £349.60k
Total expenditure £220.57k £286.02k £542.39k £451.23k £276.75k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 05 April 2025 03 December 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 05 April 2025 03 December 2025 On time
Annual return 05 April 2024 29 January 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 05 April 2024 29 January 2025 On time
Annual return 05 April 2023 05 February 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 05 April 2023 05 February 2024 On time
Annual return 05 April 2022 25 January 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 05 April 2022 25 January 2023 On time
Annual return 05 April 2021 27 January 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 05 April 2021 27 January 2022 On time
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Contact information

Address:
HCR HEWITSONS
LANCASTER HOUSE
NUNN MILLS ROAD
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 5GE
Phone:
01604233233