LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM

Registered charity 1191030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Leeds Older Peoples' Forum promotes the health and wellbeing of older people in the Leeds area.

Objects

3.1 The relief of older people in the Metropolitan District of Leeds and West Yorkshire (the area ofbenefit) and in particular the relief of poverty and the promotion of good healthof older people, primarily, but not exclusively, by associating voluntary,statutory and other agencies and individuals in a support network.3.2 The advancement of the education of older people in the area of benefit inparticular in relation to financial, health, housing, social and welfareentitlements.3.3 The advancement of the education of the public, and promotion of researchconcerning the needs of older people in relation to the provision of communitycare, and the publication of the useful results of such research.3.4 The promotion of the benefit of older people in the area of benefit withoutdistinction of sex or political, religious or other opinion, by associating thestatutory authorities, voluntary organisations and individuals in a commoneffort to provide educational, cultural, social welfare, recreational and leisure-time facilities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for older people.

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 · 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 deficit of £177,961 for the year ended 31st March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £541,686 from £719,647 in the prior year. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient funds to meet its obligations as they fall due and have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger John Urquhart Haringtonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CATHERINE JOAN MAHONEY
• Caroline Susan McNamara
• Howard Foreman
• Iain William Anderson
• John Paschal O'Dwyer
• Kathryn Julie Badon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shabana Kosar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Joy Phillips
• Thomas Armstrong
• Tricia Gradys · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Kenneth Rollinson MBE

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · Kirklees · Leeds City

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 AGE UK LEEDS.

• AGE UK LEEDS income £1.9m
• LLANDUDNO ELDERLY PEOPLE'S WELFARE SOCIETY income £43k
• LEEDS COMMUNITY SPACES income £199k
• LEEDS MIND income £3.7m
• LEEDS BLACK ELDERS ASSOCIATION income £162k
• LEEDS MENCAP income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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