Christian Science Society, Windermere

Registered charity 1031440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST WINDERMERE

Operate a Church, Sunday School and Reading Room, all open to the public.

Objects

PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves (cash at bank and in hand) decreased from £75,936 to £69,874 during the year. The charity holds significant fixed assets, including land and buildings valued at £625,000, and maintains a regeneration fund balance held in the main church account.

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 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 11/06/2025, 42 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 20/11/2024, 204 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 14/07/2023, 75 days after the 30/04/2023 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Lees
• Karen Steuer
• Lorna Kelly

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE.

• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE income £59k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SEVENOAKS income £51k
• Christian Science Society, Exeter income £28k
• FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, DORKING, SURREY, ENGLAND income £27k
• JOINT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM UK income £140k
• THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRUST IN GREAT BRITAIN income £437k

Side by side with its peers

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