LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 224084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16996096 · Wikipedia

The charity: 1. Arranges public meetings, including lectures and events. 2. Makes grants to individuals and organisations to support research, publications, education and related activities, in Leeds and its local area.

Objects

To promote the advancement of science, literature and the arts in the City of Leeds and elsewhere by making grants, holding, or providing for meetings, lectures, classes and entertainments of a scientific, literary and artistic nature.

Area of benefit: LEEDS AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · 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 unrestricted reserves stood at £478,812, an increase from the previous year's £470,789. The trustees consider it prudent to hold modest liquid reserves, noting that annual expenditure often exceeds income due to investment management fees and market volatility. The Society maintains a positive net asset position with no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander James Brooksbank
• Anne Susan Braithwaite
• BRIAN SELBY
• Caroline Allison
• Clare Jane Mitchell
• Dr Christine Ruth Holdstock
• Dr MARTIN JOHN STANIFORTH · trustee of 2 other charities
• George Sykes
• HELEN ANNE KEMP
• Professor George Eric Blair BSC PHD

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

• THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £89k
• LEEDS CITY MISSION income £59k
• LEWES LIVE LITERATURE income £49k
• THE LEEDS SOCIETY FOR DEAF AND BLIND PEOPLE income £295k
• LEEDS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FOR SINGLE LADIES income £98k
• LEEDS SANCTUARY income £241k

Side by side with its peers

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