YORKSHIRE BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 509743 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Y B K A

YBKA promotes beekeeping throughout Yorkshire, providing education, training and support for our members and informing the public at large, particularly children, about the important role that the honeybee plays in the natural ecology.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CRAFT OF BEEKEEPING.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial health remains robust, with a reported surplus of £4,361 for the year ended 30 September 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand just above the policy target of six months' expenditure, totaling £52,591. The charity maintains significant liquid assets with £119,265 in cash at bank and hand.

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 5 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 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare McGettigan
• LINDA SCHOFIELD
• NORBERT ERICH WILLI COOPER
• Richard James Senior
• Simon Keith Lathlean

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · City Of York · Darlington · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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