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Registered charity 1116500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charities activities are to support people who live or work in the Metroploitan District of Leeds, including rural areas, who are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse and to work with other agencies within the community to raise awareness of the issues of domestic abuse.

Objects

To promote and provide preventative and supportive services to the public and in particular those people whose lives are impacted by domestic abuse and violence (?impacted individuals?).By raising awareness and an understanding of domestic abuse and violence, our work includes supporting children and young people in a family setting impacted as a result of domestic violence and abuse in their own home. BCD provides training and gives access to services and information as well as working together with other agencies which support impacted individuals and their families.

Area of benefit: CITY OF LEEDS AND OUTLYING RURAL AREAS

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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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 incurred a net expenditure of £59,808 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £445,229 to £385,421. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and had no trustees' remuneration or related party transactions during the period.

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 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
• 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/03/2024 (received 31/01/2025, 1 day after the 30/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Behind Closed Doors (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); recorded price paid £15k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Puente
• Carl Harrison
• Charlotte Mynard
• Dr Karen Anne Llewellyn
• Gillian Crofton
• Karen Jayne Milner
• Patricia Cannon

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED.

• LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £720k
• Society Without Abuse income £668k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• DIG IN income £109k
• CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S AID income £605k
• LEEDS CITY MISSION income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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