LEICESTER CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY

Registered charity 1078271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTER CHARITY LINK

Charity Link administers grants on behalf of other charities for individuals in need in Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. People suffering poverty or hardship are referred to us for help. We seek out and apply to other charities on service users' behalf and distribute any grants raised. We also provide administration services to other grant making charities.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were in surplus by £299,754, which is below the charity's stated policy target of six months' unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £323,020 for the year, driven largely by the consolidation of the Edward Wood Fund and increased administration fees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Somerbys Limited. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leicester Charity Link (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barnaby Sturgess
• CHERYL PHAROAH · trustee of 3 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER THOMAS SAUL · trustee of 5 other charities
• CLIVE EDMUND SMITH · trustee of 3 other charities
• Craig Ewan Shevas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emma Mary Anderson · trustee of 2 other charities
• George Oliver · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harinder Kaur Sahota · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Surinder Mohan Sharma · trustee of 2 other charities
• Steven Richard Barradell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Northamptonshire · Nottingham City · Rutland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB.

• THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB income £197k
• TRUST LINKS LIMITED income £2.9m
• LINK TO CHANGE income £298k
• THE LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND COUNTY NURSING ASSOCIATION income £58k
• THE CHESTER LINK income £2.1m
• LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £702k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.