THE WELCOME CENTRE (HUDDERSFIELD)

Registered charity 1151282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WELCOME CENTRE

The relief of persons suffering from poverty, sickness, disadvantage and the distress arising therefrom, by providing practical support, guidance, advocacy and advice.

Objects

The relief of persons suffering from poverty, sickness, disadvantage and the distress arising therefrom, by providing practical advice, guidance and support.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £14,507 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to expenditure exceeding incoming resources. However, the trustees report that the reserves position remains relatively healthy, with free unrestricted reserves of £399,518 significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £198,000.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 05/07/2022, 5 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Welcome Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Dorothy Jane BRUCEchair
• Darran Neil Williams
• David Robert Barnes
• Emily Rose Smith
• Laure Rigal
• Phillip Lucitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Lesley Crossley

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• HUGGARD income £3.2m
• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k
• THE HAMSTEAD SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE income £36k
• THE WELCOME DIRECTORY income £69k
• ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m
• PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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