LEEDS RUGBY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1112580 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS RUGBY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE LEEDS RHINOS FOUNDATION

Leeds Rugby Foundation is Leeds Rugby's Registered Charity. The Foundation was formed with the aim of providing high quality sports, health and educational opportunities to people living in Leeds and Yorkshire. The Foundation employs a team of full time Rugby and Sports Development Officers, working with over 300 schools and 80 rugby clubs throughout the Leeds and Yorkshire.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net deficit of £9,115 for the year, contrasting with an original budget surplus target. Despite this, the trustees consider the level of free unrestricted reserves of £448,776 to be sufficient to withstand a severe six-month stress scenario, with the required safeguard identified as £221,319.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bob Bowman — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dan Busfield — Head of Business and Partnerships (source)
• Gareth Cook — Head of Community and Engagement (source)
• Naz Hamid — Head of Finance and Resources (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Youth Endowment Fund — “In Summer 2020, Leeds Rhinos Foundation was one of 129 organisations awarded a grant by the Youth Endowment Fund to help support young peopl…” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair John Da Costa
• Bethan Louise Oates
• Christopher Michael Young
• Jonathan David Pryor
• Julian Thomas Pearce
• Lucie Caroline Flowers
• Mariana Pexton
• Martin Ryan James Long
• Peter Anthony Hill
• Siobhan Emma Atkinson
• Stephanie Taylor
• Susan Mary Ward

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

Operates in: Leeds City

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 LEEDS UNITED FOUNDATION.

• THE LEEDS UNITED FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• THE YORKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £575k
• YORKSHIRE SPORT FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• NEWCASTLE RUGBY FOUNDATION income £706k
• LEICESTER TIGERS FOUNDATION income £432k
• LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION income £145k

Side by side with its peers

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