THE BORROWDALE INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1181396 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a hall for the leisure and education of residents and visitors to the valley

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF BORROWDALE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE ‘AREA OF BENEFIT’) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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

Causes: Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £7,935.80 for the year ended 31st March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £16,608.68. The trustees expressed concern about the financial position due to fixed outgoings and lower-than-expected wedding bookings, noting that resources are adequate but require monitoring.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Dixonchair
• Adrian Paye
• Craig Fearon
• John Postans
• Margaret Julia Braithwaite
• Pamela Cooke
• Penelope Mary deZouche Cooke
• Ralf Smits
• Rev Charles Henry Hope · trustee of 13 other charities
• Rev Dr Mark Radcliffe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Day

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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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).