LEICESTER LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER CENTRE

Registered charity 1142067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTER LGB&T CENTRE, Leicestershire LGBTQ+ Centre

Delivering a range of services including training programmes,counselling, advice and guidance, health and various other initiatives to provide for the emotional, social and cultural needs of lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people within the area of benefit. To promote the health and feeling of self worth and to take positive action in favour of such people who face discrimination.

Objects

A)TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE GOOD HEALTH AND IN PARTICULAR THE PHYSICAL,SEXUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS WHO ARE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL ANDTRANSGENDERED (LGBT), INCLUDING THOSE PERSONS IN DOUBT ABOUT THEIRSEXUAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCEAND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THOSEBENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, DISABILITY,SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THECONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE SAID BENEFICIARIES.C) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION INRELATION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFITOF THE PUBLIC

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £31,377 and total reserves of £37,230. The trustees report that the current reserves represent approximately three months of operating costs, which is below their stated policy target of six months. The filing confirms that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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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.

• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Joseph Lesterchair
• Alex Scown
• Andrew Murray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mx Elan Kelly
• Zara Hooley

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LGB ALLIANCE.

• LGB ALLIANCE income £383k
• LGBT FOUNDATION LTD income £3.7m
• BIRMINGHAM LGBT income £825k
• LANCASHIRE LGBT income £118k
• THE OPEN TABLE NETWORK income £41k
• forum+ income £138k

Side by side with its peers

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