THE WILLIAM LEECH CHARITY

Registered charity 1186957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £22,318,595, which are described as sufficient to meet the charity's obligations. The trustees have confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~167.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD DAVID LEECHchair
• Barrie Wallace
• David Alexander Stabler
• Helen Margaret Short
• Laura Peace
• Rev Professor David Adam Wilkinson
• Ross Patrick Covington Wilson

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Stockton-on-tees · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILLIAM LEECH FOUNDATION LIMITED - THE FOUNDATION TRUST.

• THE WILLIAM LEECH FOUNDATION LIMITED - THE FOUNDATION TRUST income £259k
• THE LEACH FOURTEENTH TRUST income £119k
• THE WILLIAM LEECH FOUNDATION LIMITED - THE CHARITY TRUST income £120k
• THE CHARITY OF WILLIAM WILLIAMS income £596k
• THE MARK LEONARD TRUST income £1.3m
• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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