BRADFORD ORGANIC COMMUNITIES SERVICE LTD

Registered charity 1188290 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BOCS Ltd supports communities in need and delivers services of environmental and social benefit including re use and recycle activities. All activities encourage volunteering and skill development aiming to improve health and wellbeing for all ages.

Objects

THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) THE PROMOTION OF WASTE REDUCTION, REUSE, RECLAMATION, RECYCLING, USE OF RECYCLED PRODUCTS,(B) PARTAKING IN NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SCHEMES AND PROJECTS FOR RECYCLING AND REUSING MATERIALS, COMPONENTS AND RESOURCES

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £15,615 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £192,809 against expenditure of £177,194. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £32,272, which is below the stated policy target of £44,000 (equivalent to three months of expenditure). The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 07/02/2023, 7 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05042246 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BLAND, Paul Anthony — director, appointed 16/08/2024on trustee list
• HOLDSWORTH, Allan Anthony — director, appointed 06/02/2024on trustee list
• AHMED, Wakas — director, appointed 29/04/2022on trustee list
• ISHERWOOD, Tracy Ann — director, appointed 02/12/2020on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Naweed — director, appointed 08/01/2009on trustee list
• WHITE, Jennifer Ann — secretary, appointed 13/07/2015

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NAWEED HUSSAINchair
• Allan Anthony Holdsworth
• Paul Anthony Bland
• Tracy Ann Isherwood
• Wakas Ahmed

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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