TRUST LEEDS

Registered charity 1182738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Trust Leeds helps people to enterprise their way to a better future. We do this in three ways: 1) By nurturing a network of community Self-Reliant Groups (peer support groups to save, share & learn together).2) By energising Be Your Own Boss SRGs (programme for self-employment).2) Micro-finance (we invest small ethical loans for business purposes in people who are financially excluded).

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO:(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY;(B) SUPPORTING THE WORK OF CHARITIES OR FURTHERING CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE GOOD CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN PARTICULAR PROMOTING COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING AND URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP:(I) IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS; OR(II) TO EXISTING BUSINESSES.(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT SEEK TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND SKILLS OF PERSONS AT RISK OF FINANCIAL EXCLUSION AND POVERTY; AND(D) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £19,592 for the year, with unrestricted free reserves of £62,304. The trustees confirmed that the charity is meeting its reserves policy target of three to nine months of operating costs and concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Needhamchair
• Alissia Deane · trustee of 1 other charity
• CATHERINE GRACE FOLLIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Wilson-Poe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian David McAleese
• Lisa Jones-Tinsley
• Sally-Anne Greenfield
• Yann Nicholas J Choiniere

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS CIVIC TRUST.

• LEEDS CIVIC TRUST income £407k
• LEEDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £675k
• LEEDS CULTURE TRUST income £10.3m
• THE MOSS SIDE AND HULME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £356k
• Heeley Trust income £2.1m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION - LEEDS income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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