BRADFORD DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1131588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In the period the charity has operated as a Community Foundation.

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES PRINCIPALLY FOR THE BENEFITOF THE COMMUNITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT AND ITSIMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND TO A LESSER DEGREE THROUGHOUT THESUB-REGION OF WEST YORKSHIRE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM AS A WHOLEAND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OFGOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEFOF POVERTY AND SICKNESS.. 3.2 . SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOMANDELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TOTHE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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 total funds decreased by £84,000 to £240,000, with unrestricted reserves standing at £113,000. The charity reports sufficient cash at bank (£299,000) to cover planned distributions and working capital, leading trustees to confirm the entity remains a going concern.

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 3 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06852262

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

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.

• MOHAMMAD, Raheem Tafazal — director, appointed 17/02/2026on trustee list
• JAKIMCIW, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 08/04/2025on trustee list
• SWEENEY, Graham Patrick — director, appointed 28/03/2025on trustee list
• COLLINS, Roohi Sultana — director, appointed 26/07/2021on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Amjid — director, appointed 01/06/2021on trustee list
• KIDWAI, Azim Ul Hasan — director, appointed 01/06/2021on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Steven Robert — director, appointed 01/06/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amjid Hussain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Azim Ul Hasan Kidwai
• Graham Patrick Sweeney
• Lisa Jane Jakimciw
• Raheem Mohammad
• Roohi Sultana Collins
• Steven Robert Hartley
• Thomas Charles Wright

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Brixton Community Based Ltd.

• Brixton Community Based Ltd income £47k
• BRADFORD DISTRICT CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £215k
• THE BRAILSFORD CHARITY income £25k
• FRATTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £300k
• ELSTREE BOREHAMWOOD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £359k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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