CHURCHES TOGETHER IN CUMBRIA

Registered charity 1191358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the advancement of the Christian religion in Cumbria, working with all denominations for the relief of poverty and the advancement of education to encourage churches in the county to grow together in trust and mutual acceptance through shared worship, learning, service and the promotion of ecumenical strategies.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF CHURCHES TOGETHER IN CUMBRIA IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND ANY OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £97,139 at the end of the period, which is above the charity's stated policy target of £35,000. The charity reported a net decrease in cash funds from the previous year and anticipates a further decline in reserves to £71,000 by the end of 2026, noting that further grant funding is urgently being sought to maintain current work levels.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Derek John Laceychair
• Bill Bewley
• Paul Myles Burden
• Rev Katherine Mary Dodd

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCHES TRUST FOR CUMBRIA.

• CHURCHES TRUST FOR CUMBRIA income £26k
• COMMUNITIES TOGETHER DURHAM income £362k
• CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £11.5m
• ECCLESIA IN CAMBRIDGE income £103k
• KENILWORTH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £91k
• CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH ATTLEBOROUGH income £997k

Side by side with its peers

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