SOUTH LAKELAND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - TOWARDS TRANSITION

Registered charity 1139474 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SLACC-TT

Our Charity has the working name of SLACCtt and has worked to support KENDAL and its DISTRICT as a Transition Town, with education and projects that seek to conserve, protect and improve the natural environment, since 2010. Our activities aim to increase the local awareness of local and global issues surrounding climate change and sustainability, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE:1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£65k
Latest spending
£1k
Registered
2010
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £64,630, retained while awaiting the resolution of its campaign. The trustees report that there are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern, although there are uncertainties regarding when the legal efforts by the mining company will cease and when the charity will be closed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“There are no uncertainties about the charity as a going concern. However, as at the end of 2025 there are uncertainties about when the mining company will stop their legal efforts, and when the Charity will be closed.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 10

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£65k£1k
31/12/2024£50k£79k
31/12/2023£38k£73k
31/12/2022£57k£46k
31/12/2021£186k£175k

Common questions

Is SOUTH LAKELAND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - TOWARDS TRANSITION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £64,630, retained while awaiting the resolution of its campaign. The trustees report that there are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern, although there are uncertainties regarding when the legal efforts by the mining company will cease and when the charity will be closed. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund14/07/2023£10kDeveloping Waste into Wellbeing
The National Lottery Community Fund23/04/2021£10kBeyond Covid
The National Lottery Community Fund17/02/2011£7kLakes Active Travel
The National Lottery Community Fund23/01/2009£2kCycleFest

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SOUTH LAKELAND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - TOWARDS TRANSITION£65k—0unclear—noted
SOUTH LAKELAND ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - TOWARDS TRANSITION FY2025£131k——unclear—no doubt

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