JIGSAW VISITORS CENTRE

Registered charity 1113759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARMLEY PRISON VISITORS' CENTRE

To provide a range of services at our prison sites and in the community, offering emotional support, advice and guidance, rehabilitation and family time. Enabling offenders and their loved ones to sustain meaningful relationships to benefit them during time in custody and beyond.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG PARTNERS, FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND DEPENDANTS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION OF THEIR LIBERTY AND WHO ARE DETAINED AT HM PRISON, LEEDS;2. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND POOR HEALTH AND TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND HEALTH EDUCATION AMONG THOSE DETAINED AT HM PRISON, LEEDS, THEIR DEPENDANTS AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ARMLEY AREA OF LEEDS, BY PROVIDING A HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED NON-STATUTORY FACILITIES;3. TO PROMOTE OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE ARMLEY AREA OF LEEDS

Area of benefit: ARMLEY, LEEDS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a stable financial position with secure funding and prudent reserves management. Per the trustees' report, free reserves totalled £97,842, which is above the stated policy target of £40,000. The charity reported a net income of £5,388 for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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 5 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jigsaw Visitor Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Simon Robert Sandison
• Guy Hill
• Helen Parkinson
• Neil Clephan
• Philip Turnpenney

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JIGSAW NETWORK C.I.O..

• THE JIGSAW NETWORK C.I.O. income £2.8m
• JIGSAW SUPPORT SCHEME income £80k
• THE JIGSAW TRUST income £6.4m
• JIG-SO CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £201k
• JIGSAW4U LIMITED income £1.5m
• JIGSAW - PRESCHOOL (WESTERN WARDS) income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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