VOLUNTARY ACTION - LEEDS

Registered charity 225863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE (INCORPORATED), LEEDS COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE INCORPORATED), V A L, VAL, VOLUNTARY ACTION LEEDS

Voluntary Action Leeds is the Council for Voluntary Service in Leeds. For 60 years we have been providing innovative and direct support, services and specialist advice to hundreds of voluntary and community groups, enabling them to carry out their work across Leeds

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £151,771 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,981,302. The trustees report that free unrestricted reserves were £459,812, which exceeds their stated policy target of £367,500 (representing three months of running costs). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (82% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN NICHOLAS CURTIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claudie Ineson
• Emma Holmes
• Guilaine Brutus
• Jane Li
• Simon Jose
• Wendy Tangen

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU.

• LEEDS CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £3.1m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION SHEFFIELD income £3.7m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION LEICESTER income £2.0m
• LEEDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £675k
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• AGE UK LEEDS income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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