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Registered charity · Kendal

Agnes Backhouse Annuity Fund

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £16k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Cumbria
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16k£22k
  • 2024£18k£12k
  • 2023£18k£34k
Earlier years
  • 2022£15k£34k
  • 2021£18k£21k
Charitable objects

TO MAKE GRANTS TO UNMARRIED OR WIDOWED WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF FIFTY WHO APPEAR TO BE IN NEEDY CIRCUMSTANCES (SELECTED BY THE TRUSTEES) AND WHO LIVE IN THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND, PRINCIPALLY IN THE PARISH OF AMBLESIDE, AND TO MAKE GRANTS DIRECTLY OR THROUGH ANOTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATION TO NEEDY AND ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND, PRINCIPALLY IN THE PARISH OF AMBLESIDE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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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.

4.3y median 1y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4Disability 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.

Property 3Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

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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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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£16k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
224960
Status
Registered
Governing document
WILL PROVED ON 12/03/1915AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 08/01/2014
Contact on the register
01539723757
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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