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Cumbria Community Foundation

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1075120
Status
Registered
Registered
April 15, 1999
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
County Of Cumbria And Its Immediate Neighbourhood

Address

Address
CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
DOVENBY HALL
DOVENBY
COCKERMOUTH
CA13 0PN

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

Areas of operation

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