LEEDS DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1003862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS D E C, LEEDS DEC

To raise public awareness of global development issues and social justice through:Provision of development education resources and training for teachers and youth workers.Provision of support and advice on development education.Research in the field of development education.Publication and dissemination of educational resources.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ,MAINTAIN,IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN WORLD PROBLEMS OF HUNGER,DISEASE,POVERTY AND IGNORANCE AND THE SOLUTIONS THEREOF AND THE ECONOMIC AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. PROVIDED ALWAYS AND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT ,THAT THE PURPOSE OF SUCH OBJECTS IS TO INFORM AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC RATHER THAN TO CAMPAIGN FOR A PARTICULAR POLICY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE WEST YORKSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £23,380 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves of £240,774. The trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

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

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• JUNE BRIGHOUSE
• MARTIN WEDELL
• MELANIE STOCKDALE
• Parminder Smedley
• Patricia Sandbach

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS CHINESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• LEEDS CHINESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £37k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT income £49k
• LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• LEEDS COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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