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South West Lakes Trust

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1079966
Status
Registered
Registered
March 22, 2000
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
South West Of England

Address

Address
Roadford Lakeside
Roadford Lake
Broadwoodwidger
Lifton
Devon
PL16 0RL

Activities

The Trust has charitable and trading activities, including safeguarding the environment and providing access and recreation for all abilities at its sites in Devon Cornwall and Somerset.Managing public access, education, conservation, forestry and land at 50 sites, 5,000 hectares of land with 2 million visits each year.Wheal Martyn is an independant China Clay Museum near St Austell

Objects: 2 Objects2.1 The Objects of the Charity are:(a) The protection and conservation for the public benefit of the natural environment in areas within the South West of England (the “Area of Benefit”); (b) the provision in such parts of the Area of Benefit as is appropriate of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare both of the public at large and of persons who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances; (c) the education of the public as to flora, fauna, ecology and the natural environment and the conservation of the same; (d) the conservation and preservation for the public benefit of sites, objects and buildings of special archaeological and historic interest within the Area of Benefit; and(e) the promotion of citizenship or community development within the Area of Benefit; where the same shall be exclusively charitable.

Classification

How
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
What
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
Who
The General Public/mankind

Areas of operation

Local Authority
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Jan. 31, 2025 £5,495,414 £5,810,586 £4,192,712 145
Jan. 31, 2024 £5,434,317 £5,637,854 £4,507,884 153
Jan. 31, 2023 £4,704,115 £5,010,160 £4,701,421 142
Jan. 31, 2022 £5,322,049 £4,690,123 £4,880,303 124
Jan. 31, 2021 £4,047,902 £3,548,670 £4,293,377 99

Trustees

Name Appointed
John Albert Thomas Lee OBE DL (Chair) March 27, 2014
Ashley Shopland June 29, 2023
Dinah Nichols March 27, 2014
Daniel James Nov. 22, 2018
David Grahame Harris Oct. 29, 2024
Dr Josephine Traill Thomson July 25, 2019
Malcolm Bell Dec. 5, 2013
Monica Susan Read Dec. 5, 2013