LEEDS BABY BANK

Registered charity 1179029 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Leeds Baby Bank gives support to families in crisis in the Leeds area by providing emergency baby essentials, food, clothing and baby equipment. All funds raised from the night will go directly into help children aged 0-5 years old.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, PRINCIPALLY AGED 0 TO 4, AND PREGNANT WOMEN, IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS WITHIN THE LEEDS AREA, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY:A) PROVIDING ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT AND OTHER ITEMS FOR CHILDREN AGED 0 TO 4 AND PREGNANT WOMEN.B) PROVIDING SUPPORT THROUGH GROUPS, DROP INS, EVENTS AND PROJECTS BENEFITING THE WIDER FAMILY.C) PROVIDING INFORMATION ON LOCAL AGENCIES, CHARITIES OR GROUPS WHO MAY OFFER FURTHER SUPPORT.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £52,879 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £304,862. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £154,961 after accounting for assets under construction, which is significantly in excess of the stated policy target of £83,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leeds Baby Bank (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHANTAL NOGBOUchair
• Ellen Tessa Martina Nettleton
• Faye Louise Freeman
• Helen Mary Thakkar
• Lucy Emma May
• Mathew William Deering

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS WOMEN'S AID.

• LEEDS WOMEN'S AID income £4.7m
• BRADFORD BABYBANK income £223k
• THE BABY BANK income £191k
• BABY BANK NETWORK income £104k
• E5 BABY AND CHILDREN BANK income £88k
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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