LIGHT OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1127877 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity activities are:The reduction of poverty.Provide training and education programmes,Nursery care, Elderly Care,Recreational activities for children and young people.Support Community cohesion.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE COMMUNITY COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WITHIN THE AREA OF WEST BOWLING, IN THE CITY OF BRADFORD AND ELSEWHERE.2) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF NURSERY CARE OF INFANTS TO FACILITATE THE EDUCATION AND ALLEVIATION OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE OF THEIR PARENTS.3) TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE RESIDENT WITHIN THE SAID AREA AND MORE WIDELY, AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE AREA TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE LIFE OFTHEIR COMMUNITY IN WAYS THAT PROMOTE COMMUNITY COHESION AND ADDRESS AND ALLEVIATE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.

Area of benefit: THE AREA OF WEST BOWLING, IN THE CITY OF BRADFORD

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit on unrestricted funds of £34,720 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £14,784. Total funds carried forward were £33,127, a decrease from £58,598 in the previous year. The charity operates from premises owned by a related party and pays an annual fee of £30,000 for their use.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06666862

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.

• SANGSTER, Sybil Claire, Revd. — director, appointed 07/08/2008on trustee list
• SMITH, Everton Anthony — director, appointed 07/08/2008on trustee list
• TROUGHT, Keith Anthony — director, appointed 07/08/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev SYBIL CLAIRE SANGSTERchair
• EVERTON ANTHONY SMITH
• KEITH ANTHONY TROUT

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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