RETAS LEEDS

Registered charity 1121330 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We believe that every refugee and asylum seeker can reach their potential here in the UK. We work closely with refugees and asylum seekers as well as the wider community in West Yorkshire to make this a reality.We work to integrate refugees and asylum seekers by assisting with access to education, requalification, training and employment and strive to build confidence and hope in our clients.

Objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") THE RELIEF OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION ASSISTING IN THE RELIEF OF THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT AND ASSISTING THEIR INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE.

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 reported a net expenditure of £87,214 for the year, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £430,199. Per the trustees' report, these reserves remain above the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of operational expenditure, providing a financial cushion against future funding uncertainties. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no trading subsidiaries.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RETAS Leeds (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert William Goslingchair
• Elizabeth Campbell
• Ian Robert Jefferies
• Leah Kershaw
• Michael John Baynham
• Mohammed Adam Aslam
• Monish Bhatia
• Richard Taiwo
• Sally Elizabeth Gibbs
• Susan Waterson

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT NETWORK.

• LEEDS ASYLUM SEEKERS SUPPORT NETWORK income £319k
• WEST YORKSHIRE DESTITUTE ASYLUM NETWORK CIO income £130k
• POSITIVE ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS income £688k
• Refugee Education UK income £1.6m
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• THE NORTH OF ENGLAND REFUGEE SERVICE LIMITED income £529k

Side by side with its peers

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