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Registered charity · Kirkby Lonsdale

The Fairbank Society

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £581k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Accommodation/housing
Where
Cumbria, Lancashire, North Yorkshire
Website
fairbanksociety.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Fairbank Society
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£581k£569k
  • 2024£486k£534k
  • 2023£537k£507k
Earlier years
  • 2022£509k£435k
  • 2021£451k£454k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROVIDE SUPPORTED SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR ADULTS TO RELIEVE LONELINESS, HARDSHIP, INSECURITY OR OTHER NEEDS AND TO ENABLE RESIDENTS TO LIVE ACTIVE FULFILLED LIVES AS FAR AS THEY ARE ABLE; AND (2) TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITHIN THE WIDER COMMUNITY OF KIRKBY LONSDALE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE LONELY, INSECURE, SUFFER HARDSHIP OR ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED OF SUPPORT BY ENCOURAGING AND ENABLING INDIVIDUALS AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE TO ENGAGE WITH THEM.

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.

10 trustees on the board

7.2y median 10y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

10
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 10Accommodation/housing 9Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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.

Health and social care 10Education 4Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£581k latest income
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.

39.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 21.0 in 2021

19 from 17 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
258882
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/03/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/01/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/07/2014NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24/04/2015AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/05/2015
Companies House
Company number 00950104 · Active
Contact on the register
01524271077 · manager@fairbanksociety.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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