LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS APPEAL FUND

Registered charity 512441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The appeal raises funds for a cause or causes selected by the Lord Mayor of Leeds, which are deemed to be of benefit, either directly or indirectly to the people or communities of the Metropolitan District of Leeds.

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE LORD MAYOR MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BY WRITING APPOINT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE LEEDS AND SURROUNDING AREA

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 · 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 a net inflow of funds of £30,151 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in total funds of £68,498. The trustees consider that the levels of reserves are sufficient to meet the objectives of the fund over the next twelve months. No material uncertainties or risks to continuing operations were disclosed.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lord Mayor's Charity Appeal (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• COUNCILLOR JANE DOWSON
• COUNCILLOR Stewart Golton
• Councillor Dan Cohen

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

Operates in: Leeds City

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 THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL.

• THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL income £3.0m
• LORD MAYOR OF MANCHESTER'S CHARITY APPEAL TRUST income £413k
• MAYORS APPEAL FUND income £27k
• THE MAYOR OF GREENWICH'S APPEAL FUND income £44k
• LEEDS CITY MISSION income £59k
• LEEDS DIOCESE CHARITABLE SOCIETY TRUST income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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