FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT

Registered charity 1100759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FLD

FLD strives to protect and enhance the landscape and natural beauty of Cumbria and the Lake District by working to influence relevant decision-makers and policy processes, initiating and participating in landscape-orientated projects, making grants to local projects and co-operating with other bodies having similar objectives or interests.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £451,157 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a significant increase in voluntary income and a revaluation of tangible fixed assets. The trustees report that free reserves were £650,821, which falls within their stated policy target of holding the equivalent of six to nine months of operating expenditure. The charity maintains a financially resilient position with unrestricted funds of £3,828,311.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lamont Pridmore. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04878364

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 — “Friends of the Lake District has been awarded £14,900 from Westmorland and Furness Council’s Nature Recovery Fund to…” (source page)

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.

• HOWE, Helen Catherine — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
• WHITTLE, John William — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
• NICHOLLS, Janette Margaret — director, appointed 13/09/2024on trustee list
• GREENHALGH, Neil James — director, appointed 13/09/2024on trustee list
• BOSWELL, Malcolm — director, appointed 13/02/2023on trustee list
• SANDERS, Fiona — director, appointed 13/02/2023on trustee list
• FORREST, Robin David — director, appointed 02/07/2021on trustee list
• HETHERINGTON, Lucy — director, appointed 15/06/2019on trustee list
• FELTON, David — director, appointed 18/09/2018on trustee list
• MCGINLEY, Linda Jeanette — secretary, appointed 11/02/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 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 · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAKE DISTRICT FOUNDATION.

• LAKE DISTRICT FOUNDATION income £796k
• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• THE LAKE DISTRICT CALVERT TRUST income £2.0m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA income £914k
• FRIENDS OF THE LOWER DERWENT VALLEY CONSERVATION GROUP income £107k
• Futureproof Cumbria income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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