THE WHARFEDALE VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1071353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS VINEYARD, THE WHARFEDALE VINEYARD, WHARFEDALE VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

The prinicpal activity of the Charity is that of the furtherance of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of the Christian believers, to share in the training of Christian workers, to promote Christian education, to advance the Christian religion and to relieve the poor and needy and the sick and elderly.

Objects

FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION (RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR);ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; RELIEF OF THE POOR, SICK AND ELDERLY; OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 unrestricted cash reserves of £43,935 are below the trustees' stated policy target of £88,588, although the charity has worked to bring reserves closer to this figure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £34,706 for the year, having made staff redundancies to address previous financial challenges, and the trustees are confident in the charity's future sustainability following a successful senior leadership transition.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03541920

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wharfedale Vineyard Christian Fellowship (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RAMDAS-HARSIA, Simeon — director, appointed 16/05/2023on trustee list
• HARDY, Judith Mary Ann — director, appointed 01/05/2022on trustee list
• SIMS, William — director, appointed 12/10/2020on trustee list
• BYDE, Michael Geoffrey John, Dr — director, appointed 24/09/2018on trustee list
• STEERE, Timothy David — director, appointed 13/03/2017on trustee list
• GRAYSON, Jonathan Michael — director, appointed 12/02/2016on trustee list
• BUTTON, Anne Marie — secretary, appointed 01/05/2007

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £625k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hetal Knowlson
• Jonathan Grayson
• Judith Mary Ann Hardy
• Michael Geoffrey John Byde · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simeon Ramdas-Harsia
• Timothy Steere
• William Sims

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

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

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NETWORK VINEYARD CENTRAL.

• NETWORK VINEYARD CENTRAL income £355k
• CHAPEL OF LIFE income £285k
• WIRRAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE TRUST LIMITED income £2.8m
• VINEYARD MUSIC (UK) LIMITED income £402k
• THE PROCLAMATION TRUST income £1.6m
• CARLISLE VINEYARD CHURCH income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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