The Lawson Trust CIO

Analysis

The Lawson Trust CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in February 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Lawson Trust CIO reported income of £676k and spending of £803k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.2m to £676k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 99% 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 Lawson Trust CIO sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Good Gym (£676k), British and Irish Orthoptic Society (£677k) and Novo Jibon (£676k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 86% of spending and raising funds 12%.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.