Lakeland Arts Support Trust

Analysis

Lakeland Arts Support Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Windermere. It was registered in June 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03665797). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Lakeland Arts Support Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £75k, spending 186% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £66k to £40k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 199% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Lakeland Arts Support Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dende Collective (£40k), Experience Oxfordshire Charitable Trust (£40k) and Concerts at Cratfield CIO (£40k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.