TRUSTEES OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF LEEDS

Registered charity 249960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Charity aims to provide (a) a place of worship for Orthodox Christians who are predominantly members of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Great Britain, (b) educational opportunities for the community we serve (of Greeks and Greek Cypriots who are first, second, or even sometimes third generation immigrants), (c) social, welfare and cultural activities, and (d) an information centre.

Objects

DONATIONS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. AQUIRING PLACES OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND BURIAL GROUNDS. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. PROVIDING PRIESTS STIPENDS RELIGIOUS TEACHERS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE TRUST DEED

Area of benefit: WITHIN 20 MILES OF THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, LEEDS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a modest surplus of £693, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £605,677. Per the trustees' report, this surplus is reserved for future maintenance and development projects, and the charity maintains insurance cover for trustees, employees, and incoming members.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greek Orthodox Community of Leeds (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREAS CHRISTOU
• Barry Paschali
• CHARLES KYRIACOU
• COSTAS TSAKIRIDES
• Dr CHRISTOS HADJICHARITOU
• Konstantinos Karakousis

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of York · Cumbria · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 COMMUNITY CHURCH LEEDS.

• COMMUNITY CHURCH LEEDS income £122k
• LEEDS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £675k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ST CONSTANTINE AND ST HELEN income £121k
• THE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY THE TWELVE APOSTLES HERTFORDSHIRE TRUST income £397k
• GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF THYATEIRA AND GREAT BRITAIN income £1.1m
• BETH HAMIDRASH HAGADOL SYNAGOGUE LEEDS income £562k

Side by side with its peers

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