Laufer Charitable Trust

Analysis

Laufer Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 1978, 48 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 2026, Laufer Charitable Trust reported income of £123k and spending of £123k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £93k to £123k (+33%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2026, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 103% 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, Laufer Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Avon and Somerset Constabulary Benevolent Fund (£123k), The Lidbury Family Trust (£123k) and Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team CIO / TÎM Achub Mynydd Llanberis Sce (£123k).