STEP (SUPPORTING THE ELDERLY PEOPLE)

Registered charity 1126445 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Charitable purposes for the benefit of elderly people in the area served by STEP.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE BECKETTS PARK, KIRKSTALL (MORRIS LANE) LATCHMERE, MOOR GRANGE, QUEENSWOOD, SPEN HILL AND WEST PARK AREAS OF LEEDS.`

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 reported a net expenditure of £40,826 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £205,880 to £165,054. Per the trustees' report, the organization relies heavily on a local authority contract for its primary funding, with grants and donations representing a minor portion of revenue. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting eight months of operating costs, though the current unrestricted fund balance of £165,054 is below the stated policy target.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2024 (received 01/09/2025, 63 days after the 30/06/2025 due date); year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/09/2024, 63 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 19/07/2022, 19 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06662077

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.

• DENISON, Cherralyn Jayne — director, appointed 02/11/2020not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cherralyn Denison
• Diane Stevenson
• Janice Wheatley

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 STEP (SWINDON).

• STEP (SWINDON) income £290k
• STEP TOGETHER VOLUNTEERING income £277k
• STEEP IN NEED income £744k
• STEPPING STONE PROJECTS income £14.5m
• STEP BY STEP PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £4.6m
• STEP ONE CHARITY income £3.7m

Side by side with its peers

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