BRYAN LANCASTER TRUST

Registered charity 222902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRYAN LANCASTER'S CHARITY

Bryan Lancaster is an independent Quaker charity.It makes small grants to other registered charities for the relief of social exclusion predominately in Kendal, Cumbria and the North West. It also makes grants to various Quaker charities.Occasional grants are made to British charities working abroad.Grants to individuals are made via other registered charities & statutory bodies.

Objects

1. THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY 2% OF THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY OR SUCH SUM AS THE COMMISSIONERS APPROVE FROM TIME TO TIME IN RELIEVING GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS WITH PREFERENCE FOR SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE BOROUGH OF KENDAL. 2. APPLY THE RESIDUE OF SUCH INCOME FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF KENDAL

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · 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 total income for the period was £25,125, comprising investment income, rents, and bank interest. Total payments amounted to £25,938, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £813. The charity's unrestricted reserves decreased from £5,828 to £4,415, while total assets including investments and land were valued at £1,065,227.

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 2 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Hall · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Francis Petrie
• SUAN MARSTON
• SUSAN MARY BULLARD · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANCASTER FOUNDATION.

• LANCASTER FOUNDATION income £4.2m
• THE OLIVER MORLAND CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k
• Brian Mercer Trust income £753k
• FRANK BRANSTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £81k
• QUAKER HOUSING TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• THE J F BRIGNALL CHARITABLE TRUST income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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