TOUCHSTONE-LEEDS
Registered charity 1012053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH LEEDS COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT, TOUCHSTONE
Touchstone works in Yorkshire, providing a broad range of services to improve the mental and physical well-being of people from all communities. Our vision is to inspire communities and transform lives. Our specialisms are work with people experiencing, or vulnerable to, mental health difficulties and their carers, and with people from black and minority ethnic communities.
Objects
TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE THE FOSTERING OF POSITIVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND THE PREVENTION OF BREAKDOWN AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY BY ESTABLISHING, GUIDING AND SUPPORTING THE PROMOTION OF SELF HELP GROUPS, AND PROVISION OF PERSONAL COUNSELLING, HOUSING AND OTHER PRACTICAL FACILITIES AND BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF LAY AND PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE WORKERS.
Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED
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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £36,160 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by expenditure exceeding income due to annual pay awards and cost-of-living payments. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,741,000, which is below the stated policy target of three months' anticipated expenditure, and the charity is undertaking restructuring to secure its future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of total anticipated expenditure (held: £1.7m)
“The Board has assessed that, under current circumstances, the free reserves should be the equivalent of 3 months’ total anticipated expenditure.” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.
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
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Touchstone - Leeds (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Arfan Hanif — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Kathryn Hart — Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Human Resources Director (source)
- Sharon Brown — Director of Strategic & Business Partnerships (source)
- Dave Pickard — Operations Director – Quality & Performance (source)
- Sophie Hailwood — Operations Director – Inclusion (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- NHS England — “This research was commissioned by NHS England to inform a workforce development strategy for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise” (source page)
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).
- Elizabeth Procter
- Gary Gallacher
- JANET MARY REYNOLDS
- Richard Aimufua
- Sally Anderson
- Sam Singh
- Samantha Cheverton
- Shahab Adris
- Stephen Bailey
- Steven Cochrane
- Thomas Stanley
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is TOUCHSTONE-LEEDS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £36,160 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by expenditure exceeding income due to annual pay awards and cost-of-living payments. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,741,000, which is below the stated policy target of three months' anticipated expenditure, and the charity is undertaking restructuring to secure its future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited.
Government & lottery funding
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