FRIENDS OF LEICESTER CITY FARM LIMITED

Registered charity 1000575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF LEICESTER CITY FARM LTD, GORSE HILL CITY FARM

To provide an educational and recreational resource

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BENEFICIAL AREA BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION IN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, ORGANIC HORTICULTURE, HOME-CRAFTS, COUNTRY LIFE, AND RELATED SUBJECTS C) TO PROMOTE AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT HUMANITY AND MORALITY BY EDUCATING THEM IN CARE AND CONSIDERATION FOR ALL ANIMALS PARTICULARLY ANIMALS IN NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION D) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, RESIDENT IN THE SAID AREA OF BENEFIT E) TO RELIEVE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANICAPPED OR DISABLED OR DEPRIVED INHABITANTS OF THE SAID AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROVIDING AS A REMEDIAL RECREATION OR THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY FACILITIES (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 (A-E) OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION)

Area of benefit: THE CITY OF LEICESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves are in deficit, with unrestricted funds overdrawn by £61,007 and total reserves at £60,742. The trustees acknowledge material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to this adverse balance sheet position, although they believe the entity can operate through the current negative position. The charity's future prosperity is dependent on maintaining visitor numbers and securing grant funding.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 13/03/2026, 41 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 02/06/2025, 122 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 23/04/2024, 83 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 14/04/2023, 73 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 29/03/2022, 57 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ANTHONY PAYN · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID HIRST · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR BILL MATTHEWS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF FIRS FARM.

• FRIENDS OF FIRS FARM income £27k
• KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED income £445k
• LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND CRICKET FOUNDATION income £572k
• Open City income £1.1m
• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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