The Leonard Laity Stoate Charity

Analysis

The Leonard Laity Stoate Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Leonard Laity Stoate Charity reported income of £88k and spending of £108k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £72k to £88k (+22%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Leonard Laity Stoate Charity sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lord Mayor of Leeds Appeal Fund (£88k), Robert Bruce Barnes Charitable Trust (£88k) and Timothy Wells Charitable Trust (£88k).

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.