CUMBRIA- RUNGWE COMMUNITY LINK

Registered charity 1014491 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COPELAND RUNGWE COMMUNITY LINK, WEST CUMBRIA-TANZANIA LINK

In West Cumbria, operates a Link between the communities of West Cumbria (UK) and Rungwe (Tanzania), through exchange visits, education and awareness events, and supporting educational and community projects in Rungwe.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, PRIMARILY IN WEST CUMBRIA, BY;-(A) ASSISTING TRAVEL TO TANZANIA TO PARTICIPATE IN AID AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND TO LEARN ABOUT THE COUNTRY(B) ENABLING THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN SUCH VISITS TO GIVE TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF OTHERS ON THEIR RETURN(C) ASSISTING YOUNG TANZANIANS TO COME TO WEST CUMBRIA TO LEARN ABOUT THE AREA AND TEACH OTHERS ABOUT THEIR OWN COUNTRY(D) PROVIDING ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND MATERIALS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRICULUM IN LOCAL SCHOOLS AND IN ADULT EDUCATION IN WEST CUMBRIA(2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY THROUGH AID AND DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY IN RUNGWE DISTRICT, TANZANIA

Area of benefit: WEST CUMBRIA AND RUNGWE DISTRICT, TANZANIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income of £55,825.84 exceeded total expenditure of £49,897.24, resulting in a surplus of £5,928.60 for the period. Free reserves increased from £32,870.59 to £38,799.19, which is above the stated minimum reserves policy of £10,000. The charity is run entirely by volunteers and has no disclosed staff costs or pension deficits.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/09/2025 (received 10/08/2026, 36 days after the 05/07/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rebecca Ellen Crowtherchair
• Amy Fletcher
• Amy Marie Ireland
• Daniel Martin Patterson
• Ellie Geen
• Julia Mary Lee
• Laura Jane Fowler
• Lauren Ellen Talbot Rogers
• Michael Stephen Lewthwaite
• Philippa Fisher
• Sarah Elizabeth Coan
• Sophie Julia Flynn

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cumbria · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB.

• THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB income £197k
• COMMUNITY LINKS BROMLEY income £746k
• PROJECT LUANGWA income £524k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA income £914k
• RWANYANA COMMUNITY TRUST income £61k
• THE CENTRE, WEST CUMBRIA LTD income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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