LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1135322 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ENABLES INDIVIDUALS, COMPANIES AND PUBLIC BODIES TO GIVE TO SUPPORT CHARITY AND COMMUNITY NEEDS, BY HELPING DONORS SET UP NAMED FUNDS - EITHER FOR TIME-LIMITED GRANTMAKING, OR BY GENERATING INVESTMENT INCOME FOR "PERPETUAL" GIVING.OPERATES AN ACCESSIBLE AND MONITORED GRANT MAKING PROCESS, MAINLY TO GROUPS ACROSS LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND, BUT BEYOND IF REQUIRED.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £67,056 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward reaching £4,804,352. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, noting no material uncertainties exist regarding its operational future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mark J Rees LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BBC Children in Need — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Co-op Foundation — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Henry Smith Foundation — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Joseph Levy Foundation — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• Postcode Justice Trust — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• UK Community Foundations — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)
• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Today, BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundatio…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STUART GRAHAM DAWKINSchair
• David Michael Andrews DL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Vijay Sharma · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Patrick McCormack
• JENNIFER SUSAN HAND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Michael Hudson · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK TYSON ROBINSON
• RICHARD JONATHAN COLTON
• Tracy Dolores Soraghan

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED.

• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE income £4.4m
• THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION income £956k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• ALFURQAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £481k
• THE LAKE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST income £288k

Side by side with its peers

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