Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club

Analysis

Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cumbria. It was registered in March 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club reported income of £24k and spending of £28k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £1,632 to £24k (+1382%), an average of +96% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 1001%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lyras Family Charitable Trust (£24k), Transplant Games & Recreational Fund (£24k) and Change a Chapter (£24k).