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home >> charity search >> cumbria action for sustainability
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 6
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

CUMBRIA ACTION FOR SUSTAINABILITY 

We promote sustainable development through enabling people, businesses and communities to take practical steps to safeguard our environment whilst prospering from a vibrant, inclusive economy.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board is predominantly male
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,392£1,318£75£0£599£2011.82390
31/03/22?£1,489£1,249£239£0£525£2452.4260
28/02/21£559£471£89£0£285£1834.7117
29/02/20£361£407£-46n/an/an/an/an/a10
28/02/19£314£278£36n/an/an/an/an/a3
28/02/18£298£263£35£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£227£244£-18£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/16£310£349£-39£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£415£385£30£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/14£374£361£13£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/13£318£199£119£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/12£112£121£-10£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/11£84£61£23£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/10£99£62£38£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/09£68£53£15£0£0£0n/a00
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 34%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 6.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 16 years

www.cafs.org.uk

office@cafs.org.uk

01768210276

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Social & legal advocacy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Cumbria,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 23 employees
  • 90 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£2,500,000
Cumbria Community Foundation£10,000
DCMS£8,791
Co-Op Foundation£7,300
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
DCMS - Appleby Flood Resilience Project (HAZ), Cumbria
£6,717 01/04/2022
Regional Capacity Building Grant for monitoring of a trial flood control methodology.
DCMS - Appleby Flood Resilience Project (HAZ), Cumbria
£2,074 01/04/2021
Monitoring of a trial flood control methodology.
Cumbria Community Foundation - #CanDo - Youth Action for Sustainability
£5,000 16/12/2020
#CanDo - Youth Action for Sustainability
National Lottery Community Fund - A Zero Carbon Cumbria: For The People By The People
£2,500,000 07/07/2020
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This is a five-year programme designed by a network of partners to deliver a zero-carbon Cumbria. 11 key delivery partners will employ nine members of staff and deliver 16 activity strands within the ....more
Cumbria Community Foundation - Youth action for sustainability – tackling climate emergency through greener schools in Cumbria
£5,000 09/01/2020
Youth action for sustainability – tackling climate emergency through greener schools in Cumbria
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£7,300 03/10/2019
Will carry out workshops, events and training of local people to facilitate conversations on how spaces could be better used to address the needs of the community.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Scaling On Street Charging Infrastructure (SOSCI) Phase 2
£179,847 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105425
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Appleby Flood Resilience Project
£12,047 01/04/2019
Appleby Flood Resilience Project
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Appleby Flood Resilience Project
£3,801 01/04/2018
Appleby Flood Resilience Project
DCMS - Regional Capacity Building
£6,280 16/02/2018
Appleby Flood Resilience Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Cumbria Action for Sustainability
£146,317 31/08/2016
36
Towards a project to build environmental and sustainable activities into community services and the infrastructure of Alston Moor.
National Lottery Community Fund - SustainEden
£955,270 16/08/2012
49
The scheme will include test draught proofing for hard to treat older homes, advice on efficiency savings, and the development of a social enterprise energy supply company to set up a 'green tariff' ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Cumbria Action for Sustainability
£10,000 23/02/2012
11
This is one of 30 communities across England receiving development funding through the Communities Living Sustainably programme to help jump start detailed planning for more sustainable living. They ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 55-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/03/2008, number: 1123155
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/02/2008, number: 06492907
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

Eden Rural Foyer
Old London Road
PENRITH
Cumbria
CA11 8ET

Objectives

3. THE CHARITY IS A NON-PROFIT-MAKING ENVIRONMENTAL BODY WHOSE OBJECTS ARE:(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CUMBRIA, BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS OR DISTRESS OR TO UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.(2) THE PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT; (INCLUDING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR OR RESTORATION OF ANY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE WHICH IS OF PUBLIC AMENITY, HISTORIC R ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST.)IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE THE CHARITY SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THE PRINCIPLES SET OUT IN AGENDA 21. IN THIS SUB-CLAUSE THE PHRASE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF T PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS; THE PHRASE AGENDA 21 REFERS TO THE ACTION PROGRAMME OF THAT NAME ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CUMBRIA.

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