Cumbria Community Foundation
Address
- Address
- Cumbria Community Foundation
Dovenby Hall
Dovenby
Cockermouth
CA13 0PN
Contact
- Phone
- 01900 825760
- enquiries@cumbriafoundation.org
- Website
Activities
We make grants to local charities, groups and individuals, manage grant-making funds on behalf of individuals and organisations, and promote giving to build long term capital funds to benefit the community in the future.Our grants target activities which help children and young people, older people and their carers, people with disabilities, the unemployed and people on low incomes.
Objects: The Company is established for:-(A) the support or promotion of any charitable purposes for the relief of poverty, the advancement of education (including training for employment or work), the advancement of religion, the protection or promotion of social wellbeing, good health both physical and mental and for charitable purposes in connection with the provision, maintenance and improvement of a public park or other public or social amenity and/ or the erection, maintenance, repair, or restoration of a building or other structure for the benefit of communities, organisations, groups and/ or individuals: (i) in the County of Cumbria and its immediate neighbourhood (the ‘Principal Area of Benefit'); and/ or (ii) outside the Principal Area of Benefit provided that the support and/ or promotion of such communities, organisations, groups and/ or individuals is ancillary to the support of charitable purposes benefitting the Principal Area of Benefit; and/ or (iii) outside the Principal Area of Benefit where grants or other payments are made from a fund held by the Company where such fund is also to benefit charitable purposes in the Principal Area of Benefit, and/ or(B) any other charitable purpose for the benefit of A (i) and/ or (ii) and/ or (iii) above, and reference to ‘Cumbria’ in this Memorandum of Association is the area defined by reference to the administrative areas set out in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1972 against ‘Cumbria’ in column 1, and will remain that area described notwithstanding any amendment under any future Local Government reorganisation.
Classification
- How
- Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations
- What
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
- Who
- Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind
Geography
- Area of benefit
- County Of Cumbria And Its Immediate Neighbourhood
- Local Authority
- Cumbria
Finances
| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £11,470,244 | £7,816,140 | £37,407,515 | 17 |
| March 31, 2024 | £7,434,154 | £7,620,009 | £34,876,960 | 15 |
| March 31, 2023 | £6,313,838 | £6,565,631 | £32,907,687 | 15 |
| March 31, 2022 | £5,406,270 | £4,708,483 | £33,876,024 | 13 |
| March 31, 2021 | £8,803,379 | £5,636,221 | £31,643,882 | 12 |
Trustees
| Name | Appointed |
|---|---|
| Alison Margaret Johnston | Jan. 7, 2019 |
| Colonel Chris Sanderson | Dec. 2, 2019 |
| Emma Louise Williamson | Nov. 28, 2023 |
| Francis Alexander Scott | March 4, 2021 |
| Georgina Smith | March 12, 2024 |
| Glenys Barbara Marriott | Dec. 2, 2019 |
| Jim Johnson | Jan. 7, 2019 |
| John Stephen Robert Wilson | Jan. 7, 2019 |
| James Perks | Nov. 28, 2023 |
| Kevin Walsh | Jan. 7, 2019 |
| Lucy Georgiana Cavendish | June 19, 2020 |
| Myles Heywood Thompson | July 1, 2025 |
| Patrick Boggon | March 12, 2024 |
| Rachael Mary Stephenson | March 12, 2024 |
| Steven Roy Harnwell | Nov. 28, 2023 |
| Suzanne Elizabeth Wilson | July 6, 2021 |
Linked charities
- Cumbria Community Foundation Trust (1075120-1)
- Cumberland Educational Foundation (1075120-2)
- The Mary Grave Trust (1075120-3)
- Edmond Castle Educational Trust (1075120-4)
- Dowker Bindloss Charity (1075120-5)
- The Crag House Charitable Trust (1075120-6)
- The Westmorlands Arts Trust (1075120-7)
- Beverley Charitable Trust (1075120-8)
Nearby
- Friends Of Bridekirk Dovenby School 0.7 mi
- Broughton First Responders 1.3 mi
- Charity Of Sarah Smith 1.4 mi
- Dovenby Free Grammar School 1.4 mi
- Wise's Gift 1.4 mi