MEANWOOD VALLEY URBAN FARM LIMITED

Registered charity 510452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6804121 · Wikipedia · also known as MEANQWOOD VALLEY URBAN FARM LIMITED AKA MVUF LTD

The farm's objects and principal activities are: leisure and recreation-promoting the benefit of all persons in the locality by providing facilities education and training-advancing environmental education and awareness and the provision of education and training for persons so as to prepare them for any trade, occupation or service.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THOSE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE MEANWOOD VALLEY LEEDS AND THE ADJACENT NEIGHBOURHOODS THEREOF WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND/OR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS AND PARTICULARLY OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY, OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3.01-05 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: MEANWOOD VALLEY, LEEDS AND ADJACENT NEIGHBOURHOODS

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 the charity reported an unrestricted deficit of £3,565 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £94,282. The trustees note that free reserves of £81,976 are below their stated policy target of £120,000, but remain confident in the Farm’s financial viability.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Meanwood Valley Urban Farm (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE GRACE FOLLINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DOUG MEESON
• David Gammage
• Helen Jane Bateman
• Rachel Amy Jeffcoat
• Rachel Sykes
• Valeria Kelemen

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED.

• KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED income £445k
• MOUNDFIELD CHARITIES LIMITED income £995k
• LONGMEAD COMMUNITY FARM LIMITED income £77k
• WOODGATE VALLEY URBAN FARM LTD income £52k
• DEAN FARM TRUST income £284k
• WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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