LAKE DISTRICT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1174201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and cultural heritage of the Lake District by inspiring people to care for and contribute to the natural environment and cultural heritage of the Lake District and Cumbria; andproviding funding and support for conservation, environmental and cultural initiatives in the Lake District and Cumbria

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 reported a deficit of £124,730 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting from strategic investments in team growth and new grant programmes. Despite this deficit, the charity held free reserves of £231,256 at year-end, which meets its stated policy target of holding at least six months of operating costs in reserve.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lake District Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Ashcroftchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Airey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Neil Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin Michael Patton
• Claire Gould
• Dan Visser
• David Graham Booth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gavin Anthony Capstick
• Gill Haigh
• Jodie Alice Mills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Elizabeth Stark
• Mike Innerdale
• Richard Alastair Bracewell · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN LESLIE NICOL

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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• FRIENDS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT income £1.7m
• THE LAKE DISTRICT SEARCH AND MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION income £430k
• THE LAKE DISTRICT CALVERT TRUST income £2.0m
• NORTHUMBERLAND NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION income £103k
• THE LUNE RIVERS TRUST income £490k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION CUMBRIA income £914k

Side by side with its peers

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