SMART WORKS YORKSHIRE

Registered charity 1184676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMART WORKS LEEDS

Smart Works Leeds provides interview clothing and coaching to enable disadvantaged women to access the workplace.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN LEEDS AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING WORK-APPROPRIATE CLOTHING FOR INDIVIDUALS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT AND / OR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROVIDING JOB-SEEKING ADVICE, TRAINING AND EDUCATION AND PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THOSE WHO SUCCESSFULLY PROCURE EMPLOYMENT OR AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, AND PROVIDED THAT SUCH BENEFITS MAY BE PROVIDED TO MEN WHERE IT IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, IN THE COURSE OF ADVANCING THE OVERALL OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

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.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 total income of £507,265 and total expenditure of £321,982 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £52,285, while the charity held £286,426 in cash at bank and in hand.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tracy Elizabeth Fletcherchair
• AMY ELIZABETH WILSON
• Ally Dowsing-Reynolds
• Amanda Jayne Clarke
• Deirdre Reid
• Emma Illingworth
• JOANNE COBURN
• Juliette louise Fitzmaurice
• Ruth Frances Cherry
• Stephanie Louise Smith

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SMART WORKS CHARITY.

• SMART WORKS CHARITY income £4.7m
• Smart Works North East income £299k
• SMART WORKS BIRMINGHAM income £188k
• SMART WORKS (GREATER MANCHESTER) income £380k
• SMART WORKS READING income £245k
• LEEDS WOMEN'S AID income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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