**CC16a** **Charity Name No (if any) South Lakes Action on Climate Change - Towards Transition 1139474** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2025 31/12/2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
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Donations,legacies andgrants|**-**||**65,000**||**-**||**65,000**||**49,705**| |Gift Aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Interest on deposit account|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Members' subscriptions|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Transfers|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Fund Value Adjustments|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**||**65,000**||**-**||**65,000**||**49,705**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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Administration|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**343**| |Advertising/Promotional|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**371**| |Governance costs|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**360**| |Grants and donationspaid|**-**||**-**||||**-**||| |Insurances|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**100**| |Legal andprofessional fees|**-**||**960**||||**960**||**76,047**| |Miscellaneous supplies|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**678**| |Printing, postage, stationary and computer
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|Alan Lovett|01/03/2026| ||SIGN|Christopher Rowley|**01/03/2026**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/02/2026 2 # **South Lakeland Action on Climate Change – towards transition** ## **Charity Commission no. 1139474 Annual Accounts 2025** ## Supplementary Notes ## Relationship to SLACC Charitable Incorporated Organisation No 1202875 In July 2023 we, the trustees of the original charity, sought and received approval to establish a new CIO charity. The new charity, number 1202875, retained the name of this unincorporated charity, South Lakes Action on Climate Change – towards transition. Over 2023, with the approval of our funders, we transferred most of our funds into the new charity. Due to ongoing legal action relating to our Coal Mine Campaign, we continued to retain funds and proceed with the campaign from the original charity. It is our intention to close this charity when the legal work and resolution of our financial liabilities are complete. ## Ongoing Activity In April 2025 our last UK legal case was concluded. However, the investors of the Cumbrian Coal Mine venture have since opened a case with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against the UK Government. We are monitoring this and have raised funds to enable us to pursue further action should we wish so to do. ## Signed Alan Lovett, SLACC-tt Treasurer 15th March 2026 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/1/2025 To 31/12/2025** **Charity name: South Lakeland Action on Climate Change towards transition Charity registration number: 1139474** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Our objects are: to promote for the benefit of
the public the conservation protection and
improvement of the physical and natural
environment, and to advance the education of
the public in the conservation, protection and
improvement of the physical and natural
environment. Our aims relate to increasing
the local awareness of climate change and
sustainability, and to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.| |Summary of the main activities
in relation to those purposes
for the public benefit, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services identified
in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The charity’s single project in 2025 was our
Cumbria Coal Mine Campaign, which was
underpinned by the funds identified in the
accounts. The project aimed to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by challenging the
decision to grant a coal mine planning
permission, and to educate the public on the
issues.| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All trustees are aware of and act on CC
guidance| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|We have no registered volunteers| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|Following the success of our 2024 campaign,
we stayed involved in a potential
redetermination of the planning application
during early 2025. The eventual withdrawal of
the application was a significant achievement,
preventing global greenhouse gas emissions of
up to 200 million tonnes that would have been
released by the use of the coal.
This helped to limit harms to local
beneficiaries, and society as a whole, that
would have resulted from higher and faster
increases in global temperatures.| ## **. Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|We had hoped legal processes related to the
coal mine would end in 2025 and our objective
of closing this charity could be met. However,
the mining company launched a claim against
the UK government at the International Centre
for Settlement of Investment Disputes,
(ICSID)and our charity is uniquely placed to
make a submission to the Tribunal as a non-
disputing party.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives set|Para 1.41|Our first fundraising activity in 2025 provided
legal fees directly to our legal team and a
further sum was successfully raised in late
2025 to meet our current objectives for 2026.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
theperiod|Para 1.21|We retain a balance of £64,630, and await a
resolution of the campaign| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|We ensure we have no commitments beyond
the funds we have raised| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|There are no uncertainties about the charity as
a going concern. However, as at the end of
2025 there are uncertainties about when the
mining company will stop their legal efforts,
and when the Charitywill be closed.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal sources
of funds (including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|Our funds come from donations, from
individuals and private organisations. We also
raise funds through crowdfunding, paid directly
to our legal team.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investmentpolicyadopted|Para 1.46|We do not hold material investments| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|There have been no significant events in 2025
that affected the financial position or
performance of the Charity.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|We have a statement of the duties of trustees
and invite applicants to send us their biography
outlining what they can offer the charity.
Trustees may be co-opted during the year prior
to election at the next AGM| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
trainingof trustees|Para 1.51|Currently through dialogue and joining our
trustee meetings alongside a named trustee to
support them| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|The Charity has a simple structure with a Board
of Trustees, members (as in our constitution) ,
and no employees or volunteers. It is linked
informally with other sustainability community
organisations in Cumbria and with the UK
Transition Town Network.| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|The charity is autonomous but has had an
Memorandum of Understanding with the
incorporated charity, South Lakeland Action on
Climate Change (1202875). For convenience
we have adopted relevant operating policies
from the incorporated charity.| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|South Lakeland Action on Climate Change towards transition| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|SLACCtt| |Registered charitynumber|1139474| |Charity’s principal address|92 Stricklandgate
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Chris Rowley|Secretary (Until October
2025)|Trustee throughout 2025|| ||Alan Lovett|Treasurer (Throughout
2025)|Trustee Throughout 2025|| ||Duncan Pollard||Resigned 27th February
2025|| ||Carol Wood||Resigned 22 April 2025|| ||Angela Lovett|Chair (Until 14 October
2025)|Resigned 14 October
2025|| ||Maggie Mason||Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| ||Dave Plumb|Chair (from October
2025)|Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| ||Susanne C Walley||Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| ||Henry Adams||Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| ||Anna Hall|Secretary (from October
2025)|Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| ||John Hall||Coopted 27 February
2025. Confirmed 22 April
2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity
Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|None| |---|---| ||Not applicable| ||Not applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **§** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc) **
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Anna Hall|Alan Lovett| ||
Secretary|Treasurer| ||29/3/2026|| ||29/3/2026|| STABLESTHOMPSON & BRISCOE www.stb-accountants.co.uk Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of South Lakeland Action on Climate Change-Towards Transition {charity number 11394741 I report on the account5 of the charity for the year ended 31" December 2025. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'the Act'l. report in respect of my examination of the charity'5 accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 1451511bl of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in conriection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: accounting record5 were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understandin8 of the account5 to be reached. Helen Holme5 BSC F IG4EW Stables Thompsori & Briscoe Lowther House Lowther Street Kendal Cumbria LA9 4DX Date: 17 March 2026 Lowiher Hause, Lowther Street, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4DX Tel.. 101.5.391720465 Email.. enquiriesQnsib-accounlan15.ca.uk Unit 27, Cumberland House, Kirkby Stephen Business Park, Si Luke's Road, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria C417 4HT Tel.. 101768.3171272 Email.. kirkby@Isib-accountant5.co.uk 5tablesThnrni)￿)n & Bri5cov Ltd. ReBiSiorod In Enkpliln(l- C.(Nnpany nUM￿r 6329f)10 RL%ISILil£I(I nlfice- LDwiher Hlius?. Lnivihrr Stitcl. Kondal. Cumbria LA9 4rJx