CARLISLE ONE WORLD CENTRE

Registered charity 1088693 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C.O.W.C

The charity addresses global development issues. It seeks to: Raise awareness of the interconnection between local and international issues, and how our actions affect the world; Educate people of all ages about the issues facing Third World peoples; Support the deprived and Campaign for justice throughout the world through a programme of education, awareness-raising and practical activities

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, A COLLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING AND ACTION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: 1. TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE INTERCONNECTIVITY OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL ISSUES AND THE IMPACT OF OUR ACTIONS 2. IN A SPIRIT OF COMPASSION, TO UNDERTAKE INITIATIVES WHICH HAVE AN IMPACT ON ISSUES RELATING TO ALL ASPECTS OF POVERTY, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year with total unrestricted reserves of £2,675. The trustees have adopted a reserves policy target of four months of expenditure, which the current unrestricted reserves fall significantly below. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr John Forbes McDowell
• Helen Mary Boyling
• REVD CANON JIM HYSLOP
• Rev Angela Whittaker · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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