WEST YORKSHIRE FAMILY MEDIATION COUNCIL LIMITED

Registered charity 1057519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST YORKSHIRE FAMILY MEDIATION SERVICE, YORKSHIRE FAMILY MEDIATION SERVICE

Working with families affected by divorce, separation, living apart to sort out practical issues, resolve conflict or dispute causing distress and standing in way of planning for the future. Looking at shared parenting and care from separate homes, fair division of finances and property on family break up, effects of family breakdown on individual family members, options for dealing with these.

Objects

TO SAFEGUARD AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL OF PERSONS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN WHOSE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BROKEN DOWN OR ARE IN DANGER OF DOING SO AND TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM AMONGST SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: WEST YORKSHIRE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £2,849 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £204,503 and expenditure of £201,654. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £37,123, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to six to nine months of budgeted expenditure (£100,000-£150,000).

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03143339

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MOFFATT, James — director, appointed 01/04/2021on trustee list
• WHEELER, Jill Catharina — director, appointed 01/04/2021not on trustee list
• SMITH, Stephanie — secretary, appointed 24/06/2010

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Moffattchair
• Aishah Aziz

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).