Registered charity · Kendal
Agnes Backhouse Annuity Fund
- 4 trustees
- Income £16k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Ian ThompsonTrustee · since 2015
- James Patrick IAN HamiltonTrustee
- John David Stuart BrownTrustee · since 2025
- Richard Derek Leigh BrownsonTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- The Bendrigg Support Trust · 1 shared trustee
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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 trustees on the board
- Ian Thompson since 2015
- James Patrick IAN Hamilton
- John David Stuart Brown since 2025
- Richard Derek Leigh Brownson since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Ian Thompson since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Ian Thompson since 2015
- James Patrick IAN Hamilton
- John David Stuart Brown since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Richard Derek Leigh Brownson since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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