This section includes the records of individual charities arranged by place and also annual accounts sent by charities to the Board of Charity Commissioners under the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 and 1855. Other bodies and organisations often had dealings with the individual charities, and these could be found in other collections, eg local authorities and parishes, so it is worth conducting a 'free text search' in CASCAT, our online catalogue to find other material.
Individual charities - Links to online catalogues of holdings:
Allithwaite School and House Charitable Trust
Arnside Branch Royal British Legion
Barrow Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Brampton Old People's Welfare Committee
Brampton, Wilson Memorial Homes
Burgh-by-Sands Parish and Public Hall
Burneside Charities (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Burton in Kendal Educational Charities
Carlisle Dispensary (Carlisle Sick Poor Fund)
Carlisle, Fell Memorial Hall, Kingstown
Cartmel Fell Educational Foundation
Crosby Garrett School and Exhibition Endowment
Crosby Garrett, Frances Sewell Charity
Crosscrake and Hutton Roof Schools
Eaglesfield, Fletchers Charity
Endmoor, Keightley Memorial Fund
Eskdale Mill and Heritage Trust
Grayrigg Mary Rowlandson Almshouses
Great Strickland, Bull Land and Dame School (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Greystoke Theological Training College
Hamilton Memorial Fund
Holme Cultram, Sixteen Men and Holme Cultram Seadyke Charity
Houghton Village Hall Committee
Hutton Roof Quarries (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Kendal Charitable Funds Committee (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Kendal Green Hospital League of Friends and Comforts Fund (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Kendal Sick Poor Society (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Kendal Voluntary Old People's Committee
Keswick Charities (online catalogue not available: contact Carlisle Archives directly for details)
Kirkby-in-Furness Parish Charities
Kirkby Stephen United Charities (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Lazonby Village Hall (additional records also available)
Little Strickland, Mary Fletcher Charity
Lowca Miner's Institute and Recreational Ground Charity
Mockerkin Educational Foundation
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals West Cumberland Branch
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children West Cumberland Branch
Penrith Multiple Sclerosis Association (online catalogue not available: contact Carlisle Archives directly for details)
Plumpton Wall, Thomas Hall's and John Scott's Charities
Ravenstonedale Educational Foundation (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Save the Children Fund, Kendal Branch
Sedbergh and District Old People's Welfare Committee
Sedbergh British Legion and United Services Benevolent Committee
Sedbergh United Charities and Widows' Hospital
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Families Association (online catalogue not available: contact Carlisle Archives directly for details)
Troutbeck General Charitable Trust (online catalogue not available: contact Kendal Archives directly for details)
Ulverston Branch, Royal British Legion (online catalogue not available: contact Barrow Archives directly for details)
West Cumbria Community Transport
Westmorland County Hospital League of Friends and Comforts Fund
Wetheral, Howard Memorial Chapel Restoration Appeal
Whitehaven Lifeboat (Anne Lowther Charity/Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
Whitehaven, Piper Educational Trust
Whitehaven, Refuge Sunday School
Windermere and District Returned Forces Benevolent and Relief Fund
Whitehaven, Project Homeless Ltd.
Whitehaven, West Cumbria Sentencing Alternatives Ltd.