SEEDLINGS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1084236 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEEDLINGS AT RUFFORD PARK, SOUTHVIEW PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Seedlings Foundation supports the provision of education and care for any child aged 0 to 19 years of age by means of a small grant scheme

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS. OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND ARE, IN THE OPINION OF THE BOARD, BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE CHARITIES AREA OF BENEFIT.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £20,135.74 against total costs of £14,787.00, resulting in a net surplus. The total value of funds increased from £467,685.31 in the previous year to £479,655.86 at the end of the period, indicating stable financial resources.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID CARRchair
• Carlos Chavez
• David Ball
• Ellie Lyon
• John Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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