CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Registered charity 1075120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
We make grants to local charities, groups and individuals, manage grant-making funds on behalf of individuals and organisations, and promote giving to build long term capital funds to benefit the community in the future.Our grants target activities which help children and young people, older people and their carers, people with disabilities, the unemployed and people on low incomes.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
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.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
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 — “The West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership (WCMHP) was established in 2021, as part of Transforming West Cumbria, a strand of Sellafield Ltd…” (source page)
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£581k
Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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.
- 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
Is CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.
Who funds CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include BEEBY FAMILY FOUNDATION, FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST, JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST, CLARK FOUNDATION, THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST.
Shared trustees with funders
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Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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