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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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 1 other charity
• 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 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 VOLUNTARY ACTION LEICESTER.

• VOLUNTARY ACTION LEICESTER income £2.0m
• Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons' Charity (LRFC) income £119k
• MARKET HARBOROUGH BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £251k
• LEICESTERSHIRE & RUTLAND ORGANISATION FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING LIMITED income £16.2m
• LIVING WITHOUT ABUSE income £1.8m
• LEICESTER CHILDREN'S HOLIDAYS income £390k

Side by side with its peers

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