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Registered charity · Carlisle

Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.cumbriacvs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 89%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE NON METROPOLITAN COUNTY OF CUMBRIA AND SURROUNDING AREAS (THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS; ANDB) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

52 grants · £6,973,981 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

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £8,2182022-11-04
  • Cumbria Community Foundation £83,8162022-07-27
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9502022-04-29
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £2,7232022-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £294,5692022-02-16
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.

9 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1

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

Tech and media 9Arts and leisure 3Health and social care 3

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£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.1 in 2021

41 from 33 in 2021
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
1119671
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 MARCH 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22 JULY 2009 as amended on 11 Feb 2020 as amended on 03 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 06178269 · Active
Contact on the register
01768 800350 · info@cumbriacvs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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