LEEDS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR SINGLE LADIES

Registered charity 1155794 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LBSSL

To help elderly single ladies in need, to include but not limited to:regular payments in cash or benefits in kind; grants in cases of extreme necessity; funding social activities to alleviate loneliness and isolation;funding female geriatric health research; funding other social enterprises whose objects relate to health & safety and relief of sickness and disability of elderly ladies.

Objects

3.1.1 TO HELP ELDERLY SINGLE LADIES IN NEED SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THIS CONSTITUTION ? WITH THIS HELP INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROVISION OF THE FOLLOWING:(1) REGULAR PAYMENTS TO ELDERLY SINGLE LADIES IN NEED, IN THE FORM OF CASH AND OTHER BENEFITS IN KIND; AND/OR(2) GRANTS TO ELDERLY SINGLE LADIES IN CASES OF EXTREME NECESSITY AND EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES; AND/OR(3) FUNDING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES TO ALLEVIATE LONELINESS AND ISOLATION AS IS OFTEN SUFFERED BY ELDERLY SINGLE LADIES; AND/OR 3.1.2 FUNDING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF FEMALE GERIATRIC HEALTH RESEARCH; AND/OR 3.1.3 FUNDING SUPPORT FOR CHARITIES, NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATIONS OR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES WHOSE OBJECTS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY COVER THE PROTECTION, PROMOTION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ELDERLY LADIES AND/OR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY AFFECTING ELDERLY LADIES.

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 total net assets amounted to £5,507,552, with free/unrestricted reserves of £55,278. The trustees believe reserves are sufficient to maintain activities and meet future plans, confirming the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wheawill & Sudworth Limited. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANONA DENISE EVERETT
• DAVID HUGH SIMPSON
• ELISABETH ANNE STEPHENS
• JANE CAROLINE WAINMAN
• JILL ELIZABETH RICHARDSON
• KATHERINE PRIMROSE SMITHSON
• MARGARET GILLIAN MARY WOOLER
• NIGEL APPLEYARD WAINMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Geoffrey Wooler · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY-ANNE JOHNSON
• Timothy Hill

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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