LEEDS SOUTH AND WEST METHODIST CIRCUIT

Registered charity 1129529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS (HEADINGLEY AND WEST) CIRCUIT, LEEDS, HEADINGLEY METHODIST CIRCUIT

We are a Methodist Circuit created in 1/9/2015 covering 23 Methodist churches (including 5 local ecumenical partnerships) across the western half of the Leeds Metropolitan area.We aim to continue our life of witness in accordance with the Our Calling Priorities set out by the Methodist Church: Worship, Learning and Caring, Service, and Evangelism.

Objects

The purposes of the Methodist Church are and shall be deemed to have been since the date of union the advancement of -(a) the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal standards and the dicipline of the Methodist Church;(b) any charitable purpose for the time being of any Connexional, district, circuit, local or other organisation of the Methodist Church;(c) any charitable purpose for the time being of any society or institution subsiduary or ancillary to the Methodist Church;(d) any purpose for the time being of any charity being a charity subsidiary or ancillary to the Methodist Church.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was conducted and the auditor issued an unqualified opinion, confirming the financial statements were properly prepared in accordance with UK GAAP and the Charities Act 2011. The auditor concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~73.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON ERICA HARTLEY
• Andrea Evers
• BRAIN LAWRENCE DRAPER
• BRIAN THORNTON
• CAROL SIMPSON
• CATHERINE ANN BAILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Patricia Hoyle · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID JOHN WOOD
• Dorothy Stefanidis
• Dr John Uren
• Dr Judith Simpson
• Dr Robert Moore
• Dr Stephen Daniel Humphris · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELIZABETH ANN SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELLEN CAROL NORMANTON
• Elizabeth Mary Beetham · trustee of 1 other charity
• FRANCES ANN WOOD
• FRED JEWITT
• GLYNIS CLARKE
• Guy Austin-Bride · trustee of 2 other charities
• HELEN CATHERINE BOOCOCK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen Paine
• JANET TAYLOR
• JOHN MARTIN PROCTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Rodney Strickland
• Joshua Neil Williamson
• KEITH HARRISON
• LINDA MARGARET KELLETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARGARET ANNE METCALFE
• MICHELLE ROCK
• Margaret Ann Tate
• PAULINE PEACOCK
• PHILIP MAUD BA
• PROFESSOR EDMUND HAROLD LINFIELD
• Paul Howard Metcalfe
• Paul Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Gordon Edward Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROY SHEARD
• Rev MICHELLE SARAH ONYETT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Madeleine Elizabeth Andrews · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK METHODIST CIRCUIT.

• YORK METHODIST CIRCUIT income £860k
• CALDERDALE CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £1.6m
• BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE CIRCUIT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH income £1.3m
• THE SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE METHODIST CIRCUIT income £473k
• BRADFORD NORTH METHODIST CIRCUIT income £336k
• BIRMINGHAM METHODIST CIRCUIT income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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