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Registered charity · Keswick

Cumbria Theatre Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.theatrebythelake.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cumbria Theatre Trust
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.0m£3.7m
  • 2024£3.0m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.7m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2021£2.3m£1.5m
Charitable objects

3 THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED:I) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.II) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMMES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6.6y median 7y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Education/training 6Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 11Business services 4Finance 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.0m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2021

29 from 33 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
516673
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 DECEMBER 1984 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 20 DECEMBER 1993, 20 DECEMBER 1995, 3 MARCH 2007 AND 4 APRIL 2009 AND BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23 JANUARY 2001
Companies House
Company number 01874868 · Active
Contact on the register
01768772282 · finance@theatrebythelake.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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