Lsa Charitable Trust

Analysis

Lsa Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lagness. It was registered in July 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Lsa Charitable Trust reported income of £42k and spending of £45k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £41k to £42k (+2.5%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 136% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lsa Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The New Church Children's Society (£42k), Portsmouth Area Regeneration Trust (£42k) and Wings of Hope Community Association (£42k).

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.