LEY COMMUNITY DRUG SERVICES

Registered charity 1074874 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEY COMMUNITY, THE LEY COMMUNITY

The Ley Community provides a structured residential treatment programme for up to 58 entrenched drug and alcohol misusers. It is run as a therapeutic community with extensive resettlement support on completing the treatment programme. Referrals are made from throughout the United Kingdom with local authorities funding treatment.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF PERSONS CAUSED BY THE USE OF DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR BY A DISORDER OF PERSONALITY.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net expenditure of £44k for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to intercompany loan interest and depreciation. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £2,020k are considered appropriate as they reflect the net book value of the land and buildings leased to the parent company, Phoenix Futures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Beever & Struthers. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03736193

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ley Community (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.

• WEG RECANATI, Tressa — director, appointed 19/07/2024not on trustee list
• COTTRELL, Alison Mary — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• POOLE, Amanda Janine — director, appointed 13/07/2019on trustee list

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). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Ley Community Drug Services — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 17/01/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Cottrellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Janine Poole
• Tressa Verrier

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Via Residential Ltd.

• Via Residential Ltd income £1.9m
• LEE'S REST HOUSES income £665k
• LEEWAY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE SERVICES income £4.5m
• NARCONON TRUST income £179k
• ST LEONARDS YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £645k
• LEEDS JEWISH WELFARE BOARD income £3.7m

Side by side with its peers

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