CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1075120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,003,355, which is above the trustees' stated minimum core reserve target of £500,000. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. The charity reported a net income before investment gains of £3,654,104, driven by significant investment returns despite a loss on investment market values.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Myles Thompson — Chair (source)
• Kevin Walsh — Trustees’ Vice Chair (source)
• Alison Johnston — Honorary Treasurer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sellafield Ltd

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• ALISON MARGARET JOHNSTON
• Colonel Chris Sanderson
• Emma Louise Williamson
• FRANCIS ALEXANDER SCOTT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Georgina Smith
• Glenys Barbara Marriott
• JIM JOHNSON
• JOHN STEPHEN ROBERT WILSON
• James Perks
• Joanne Verona Thomlinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Kevin Walsh
• Lucy Georgiana Cavendish · trustee of 1 other charity
• Myles Heywood Thompson
• Patricia Anne Bell
• Patrick Boggon
• Rachael Mary Stephenson
• Steven Roy Harnwell
• Suzanne Elizabeth Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Alexander Scott — trustee here and at FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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