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Registered charity (CIO) · Kendal

Lake District Foundation

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £796k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.lakedistrictfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£796k£921k
  • 2024£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£641k£328k
  • 2021£318k£358k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE LAKE DISTRICT BY Ò PROVIDING FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATION, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL INITIATIVES IN THE LAKE DISTRICT AND CUMBRIA; AND Ò INSPIRING PEOPLE TO CARE FOR AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE LAKE DISTRICT AND CUMBRIA.

Grants received

19 grants · £970,357 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £390,271 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £224,550 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £205,564
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £67,672 (7 grants)
  • Cumbria Community Foundation · £39,781 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002025-10-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £205,5642025-09-17
  • The Grocers' Charity £2,5202023-06-21
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £9,2402023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £8,8932023-04-01
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.

14 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (6)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14Education/training 5Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Manufacturing 5Education 2Health and social care 1

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£796k 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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.6 in 2021

11 from 8 in 2022
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
1174201
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 09 Aug 2017
Contact on the register
07497 816091 · info@lakedistrictfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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