Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust

Analysis

Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Windermere. It was registered in February 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03857179). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust reported income of £45k and spending of £59k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £81k to £45k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Men Who Talk (£45k), The Worshipful Company of Glovers of London Charitable Endowment (£45k) and Rotary Club of Salcombe Trust Fund (£45k).

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.