FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT
Registered charity 1100759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLD
Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts
The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,581,793, with voluntary income comprising over 70% of the total. The charity reported a net income surplus after investment losses, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £2,252,416. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Lamont Pridmore.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of the Lake District (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Malcolm Boswell — Chair (source)
- Lorayne Woodend Wall — Head of Planning and Policy (source)
- Jeremy Smith — Head of Campaigns and Engagement (source)
- Jeremy Baines — Finance and operations manager (source)
- Linda McGinley — Company Secretary (source)
- Lucy Hetherington — Vice Chair (source)
- Robin Forrest — Treasurer (source)
- Claire Coburn — Fundraising and Supporter Relations Manager (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).
- Westmorland and Furness Council’s Nature Recovery Fund
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£233k
Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Trustees
- David Felton
- Fiona Sanders · trustee of 1 other charity
- Helen Catherine Howe
- Janette Nicholls
- John William Whittle
- Lucy Hetherington
- Malcolm Boswell
- Neil Greenhalgh
- Robin David Forrest
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Cumbria
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT financially healthy?
The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,581,793, with voluntary income comprising over 70% of the total. The charity reported a net income surplus after investment losses, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £2,252,416. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations. Its FY2022 accounts were audited by Lamont Pridmore.
Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT?
Funders whose own accounts filings name FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT as a grant recipient include THE GORDON GRAY TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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Charities like this
Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAKE DISTRICT FOUNDATION.