The Doctor Vivien Lane Foundation Scholarship

Analysis

The Doctor Vivien Lane Foundation Scholarship is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in February 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Doctor Vivien Lane Foundation Scholarship reported income of £24k and spending of £27k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £23k to £24k (+3.6%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Doctor Vivien Lane Foundation Scholarship sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Anthony and Deirdre Montagu Charitable Trust (£24k), London Go Centre (£24k) and Cawston Village Hall (£24k).