YORKSHIRE MEDIATION SERVICES

Registered charity 1149670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YMS

Yorkshire Mediation Services provides mediation and conflict resolution services across Yorkshire and Humberside. Our core work is neighbour dispute mediation but we also carry out workplace mediation, peer mediation and training in communication and conflict handling skills.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, PREDOMINANTLY IN THE YORKSHIRE REGION, THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION OR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN PERSONS OR ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN DISPUTES; 2. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE PURPOSE AND METHODS OF MEDIATION IN DISPUTES AND CONFLICTS, TO ENABLE PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN THE INTERESTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Area of benefit: 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 the charity reported a net income of £9,996 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £61,365 and total expenditure of £51,369. Free reserves stood at £73,927, which is higher than the trustees' stated maximum policy target of £51,000. The trustees consider this surplus acceptable in the short term as the main contract ends in March 2026, providing time to identify new income sources.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07887952 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Yorkshire Mediation Services (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.

• MORRIS, Claire Elaine — director, appointed 10/11/2014on trustee list
• GLAISTER, Thomas Anthony — director, appointed 26/06/2013on trustee list
• BETTS, Susan — director, appointed 20/12/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Morris
• MR ANTHONY GLAISTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN BETTS

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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