VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA

Registered charity 1080875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACT, ACTION WITH COMMUNITIES IN CUMBRIA

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Cumbria and in particular the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBRIA AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS(II) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE COUNTY OF CUMBRIA

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY OF CUMBRIA

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves stood at £27,104, a significant decrease from £273,468 in the prior year, following the designation of £369,000 as an operating reserve. The charity reported a net income surplus of £164,743 for the year and maintains adequate resources for going concern purposes.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03957858

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STAMPER, Rebecca — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• JEWELL, Katherine — director, appointed 24/10/2025on trustee list
• FREAKE, Deborah Louise, Dr — director, appointed 19/01/2024not on trustee list
• SHIMMIN, Juan — director, appointed 19/05/2023on trustee list
• BRAMWELL, Samantha Jane — director, appointed 06/02/2017on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Francis James, Park — director, appointed 15/04/2014on trustee list
• CASTLE-CLARKE, Susan Jane — director, appointed 09/04/2013on trustee list
• MCVIETY, Alan — director, appointed 13/09/2002on trustee list
• SMYTH, Lorrainne — secretary, appointed 11/02/2014

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan McViety · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Debbie Freake
• Francis James Park Webster · trustee of 2 other charities
• Juan Shimmin
• Katherine Jewell
• Rebecca Stamper
• Samantha bramwell
• Susan Castle-Clarke

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CUMBRIA COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• CUMBRIA COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.4m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION RUTLAND income £277k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION SUNDERLAND income £49k
• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION COVENTRY income £351k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.