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Cumbria Wildlife Trust LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cumbria Wildlife Trust Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£6.4m
  • 2024£5.8m£5.0m
  • 2023£4.8m£4.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.2m£3.3m
  • 2021£4.0m£2.9m
Charitable objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CONSERVATION MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF: (I) WILDLIFE AND HABITATS; (II) PLACES OF NATURAL BEAUTY; (III) PLACES OF ORNITHOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, ZOOLOGICAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; (IV) FEATURES OF LANDSCAPE WITH GEOLOGICAL, PHYSIOGRAPHICAL OR AMENITY VALUE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN WAYS THAT FURTHER BIODIVERSITY.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN: (I) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; (II) THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION.3. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN ALL BRANCHES OF NATURE STUDY AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF.

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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

3.3y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other 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.

Arts and leisure 10Finance 2Tech and media 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£13.8m 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.5 in 2021

88 from 52 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.
20%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
218711
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEM AND ARTS INC 16 MAY 1962 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 27 OCT 1973, 24 AUG 1974, 25 APRIL 1984, 8 JUNE 2002 AND 14 JUNE 2003, NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 9 OCTOBER 2010.
Companies House
Company number 00724133 · Active
Contact on the register
01539 816300 · mail@cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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