OBLONG LTD

Registered charity 1120379 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

IT access & print facilities, English classes, mental health well-being Course, Pay-as-you-feel cafe, volunteering opportunities, Local gardening projects, Community Centre facilities.

Objects

3TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO CREATE ACTIVE, FLOURISHING COMMUNITIES; AND TO RUN A COMMUNITY CENTRE, PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WOODHOUSE, LITTLE LONDON, AND HYDE PARK AREAS

Area of benefit: LEEDS.

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 the charity made a surplus of £4,465 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £119,861, which is above the stated policy target of £52,710. The charity holds total reserves of £225,462, including £105,601 in restricted funds.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03147855

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JALLOW BADJAN, Haddy, Dr — director, appointed 03/09/2025not on trustee list
• READ, Sally Louise — director, appointed 22/11/2024on trustee list
• BARTON, John Richard — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• MUBARAK, Layla Jamillah — director, appointed 23/11/2022on trustee list
• HEARD, Neal Martin — director, appointed 10/03/2021on trustee list
• SPINKS, Paul — director, appointed 12/01/2020on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Mark — director, appointed 09/01/2018on trustee list
• FISHENDEN, Jessica — secretary, appointed 05/07/2023

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NEAL HEARDchair
• Dr Haddy Jallow Badjan
• John Richard Barton
• Layla Jamillah Mubarak
• Mark Richards
• Paul Spinks
• Sally Louise Read

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 OMEGA COMMUNITY LIVING LIMITED.

• OMEGA COMMUNITY LIVING LIMITED income £856k
• ONGO COMMUNITIES LIMITED income £1.9m
• OSBORNE HOUSE COMMUNITY NURSERY LTD income £549k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• COMMUNITY WELFARE ACADEMY income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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