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John Lyon's Charity

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £12m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Keepers & Governors of Possessions Revenues & Goods of Free Grammar School of John Lyon.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 6 more
Where
Barnet, Brent, Camden, City Of London and more
Website
www.jlc.london (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£21m
  • 2024£11m£20m
  • 2023£11m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£16m
  • 2021£8.7m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO FURTHER ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:- (A) THE RELIEF OF THE AGED, DISABLED OR POOR INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF BARNET, BRENT, CAMDEN, EALING, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM, HARROW AND THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA AND THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINISTER (THE INHABITANTS OF THOSE AREAS BEING REFERRED TO IN THIS CLAUSE AS "THE INHABITANTS"); (B) THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND SICKNESS AMONG THE INHABITANTS; (C) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT (WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE) OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION; (D) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE INHABITANTS; AND (E) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS:

Grants received

4 grants · £1,920,000 total

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Top funders

Most recent

Grants given

1,555 grants · £81,198,237 total

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Top recipients

Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£11.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

18 from 12 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
237725
Status
Registered
Governing document
THE CHARITIES (JOHN LYON ROAD TRUST) ORDER 1991 AS VARIED OR AFFECTED BY SCHEME DATED 28TH NOVEMBER 1996 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 26 NOVEMBER 2016 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 18 MARCH 2017 AS AMENDED BY ORDER AND SCHEME DATED 14 NOVEMBER 2018 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 14 APRIL 2022
Contact on the register
02072591700 · info@jlc.london
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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