The Four Lanes Trust

Analysis

The Four Lanes Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in June 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Four Lanes Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £63k, spending 158% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £47k to £40k (-15%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Four Lanes Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Luton & District St Vincent & the Grenadines Association (£40k), The King's Royal Hussars Officers' Trust (£40k) and Allen Valleys Community Arts (£40k).

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.