LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 249404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE OF LEEDS

The principal aims of the Charity are:The advancement of the Roman Catholic ReligionThe promotion of Catholic teaching The provision and maintenance of churches, presbyteries and schoolsThe provision and care of priests.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEEDS.

Area of benefit: ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESES OF LEEDS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £2,070k for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in an overall increase in reserves of £2,901k due to significant net gains on investment assets. The charity holds free reserves of £14,213k, which the filing notes represent eleven months of total operating expenditure, well above its policy target of three months. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DIOCESE OF LEEDS TRUSTEE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS DIOCESE CHARITABLE SOCIETY TRUST.

• LEEDS DIOCESE CHARITABLE SOCIETY TRUST income £42k
• LEEDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £383k
• THE LINCOLN DIOCESAN TRUST AND BOARD OF FINANCE LTD income £11.1m
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST income £7.6m
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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