The Carole and Geoffrey Lawson Foundation

Analysis

The Carole and Geoffrey Lawson Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kingston Upon Thames. It was registered in December 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The Carole and Geoffrey Lawson Foundation reported income of £503k and spending of £556k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £580k to £503k (-13%), an average of -3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 106% 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 Carole and Geoffrey Lawson Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North East Wales Mind (£503k), Challenging MND (£503k) and Voluntary Action Islington Limited (£503k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £526k. Reserves of £10.9m would cover about 224 months of spending at that rate.