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Registered charity · Carlisle

Cumbria LAW Centre

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £538k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.cumbrialawcentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cumbria LAW Centre
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£538k£421k
  • 2024£517k£335k
  • 2023£333k£368k
Earlier years
  • 2022£350k£360k
  • 2021£388k£354k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

I) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BENEFIT AREA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANSII) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREAIII)THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA

Grants received

19 grants · £1,997,232 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

8.6y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 6Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 5Education 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£538k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.8 in 2021

10 from 9 in 2024
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1004114
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 JULY 1990 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 25 JUNE 1991, 8 NOVEMBER 1994, 6TH DECEMBER 2001 AND AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 3 NOVEMBER 2009
Companies House
Company number 02524320 · Active
Contact on the register
01228515129 · reception@cumbria-law.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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