UPPER EDEN LINKING LIVES

Registered charity 1201147 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Upper Eden Linking Lives is a befriending service aimed at adults who are experiencing loneliness or find themselves requiring some extra friendship and support, and this is provided through weekly home visits or telephone calls. We match volunteers with those who are referred to us and all volunteers are carefully selected, trained, and vetted.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS; THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST PERSONS WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY ARE HOUSE BOUND FOR ANY REASON, BUT IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE ELDERLY AND IN POOR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH, ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ONE-TO-ONE BEFRIENDING, AND THROUGH PROMOTING INITIATIVES WHICH PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION.

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

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

Latest income
£14k
Latest spending
£14k
Registered
2022

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Policies the charity declares

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2026

  • Volunteers: 22
  • Government income: £1,000 — grants £1,000 (1); 7% of the £14,054 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £2,500 — grants £2,500 (1); 13% of the £19,202 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 12
  • Government income: £1,500 — grants £1,500 (1); 8% of the £18,273 total gross income on the same return

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
05/04/2026£14k£14k
05/04/2025£19k£15k
05/04/2024£18k£7k

Common questions

Who funds UPPER EDEN LINKING LIVES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name UPPER EDEN LINKING LIVES as a grant recipient include THE FRIEDA SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FRIEDA SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£4k
THE FRIEDA SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£4k
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£3kSocial Needs

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund21/02/2024£45kUpper Eden Linking Lives