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Registered charity · Kendal

Bendrigg Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, Disability, Amateur Sport
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.bendrigg.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bendrigg Trust
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2021£923k£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PERSONS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, ENTAL SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES. (2) TO EDUCATE AND RELIEVE DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR THROUGH ANY MEANS WHATEVER AND THE FA OF SUCH PERSONS. (3) TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT SUFFERING CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH. (4) THE RELIEF OF INFIRMITY, OLD AGE OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL*

Grants received

23 grants · £293,630 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

Most recent

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.

12 trustees on the board

7y median 8y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 12Disability 12Education/training 12

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 11Education 4Professional services 4

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.0 in 2020

43 from 30 in 2020
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
508450
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 27 OCTOBER 1978 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 29 JULY 1988 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED ON 6TH SEPTEMBER 2002
Companies House
Company number 01396557 · Active
Contact on the register
01539723766 · bookings@bendrigg.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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