CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND ANTIQUARIAN AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 227786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CWAAS

Funds historical and archaeological research with grants to volunteer groups, schools, museums and academic/professional researchers. Operates a website with accessible heritage information. Support local historical societies in studying the historical environment. Holds study days, lectures and visits. Publishes a respected annual journal, plus books and other publications.

Objects

THE INVESTIGATION, DESCRIPTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ANTIQUITIES, ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORICAL RECORDS OF CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND AND LANCASHIRE NORTH OF THE SANDS.

Area of benefit: CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND AND LANCASHIRE NORTH OF THE SANDS

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the Society has been successful in meeting its objects and continues to fulfil its commitment to members. The Independent Examiner is Mr C.J. Brown of Brown and Company, Chartered Accountants. No officers receive any financial recompense for their services to the Society.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Gillian Margaret HEYchair
• Alan Kevin Grice
• Andrew Nicholas Mirehouse Mawson
• Anthony Raymond WILMOTT
• Barbara Marion BLATCHFORD
• DR DAVID JOHN BREEZE
• DR Michael John Winstanley
• Dr Christopher Donaldson
• Dr KEITH JOHN STRINGER
• Dr Richard Newman
• Dr SOPHIE THERESE AMBLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Sarah Anne Rose
• Dr WILLIAM DERMOT SHANNON
• Eleanor Jane Kingston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janice Sheila HICKS
• Jessica Rosemary TOFT
• Joseph Rigby
• MARION MCCLINTOCK MBE BA · trustee of 2 other charities
• MARK BRENNAND
• Martin Railton
• PROFESSOR ANGUS JAMES LOGIE WINCHESTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR COLIN MICHAEL RICHARDS
• RACHEL MARGARET NEWMAN BA FSA
• ROB DAVID
• Robert Howard Bewley
• Robert Rosario Baxter
• WARREN DAVID ALLISON

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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