THE UNITY CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 515412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activity and objects of the company during the year under review, in line with its constitution, continued to be the creation of employment via the establishment of small business, together with the provision of nursery and gymnasium facilities to provide services for all, especially the unemployed and deprived of Sheffield.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD UNDER THE AGED OF 25 AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED BY THE PROVISON OF TRAINING FACILITIES AND THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MEY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: CITY OF SHEFFIELD

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 unrestricted reserves increased to £526,157, exceeding the previous year's £467,754. The charity reports a net operating surplus of £58,338 and confirms it is a going concern with sufficient cash reserves. Trustees aim to hold reserves equivalent to twelve months of expenditure to protect against revenue falls.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01790507

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PULFREY, Nicholas James — director, appointed 08/12/2025not on trustee list
• LEWIS, Susannah — director, appointed 09/11/2023not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Charles Sinclair
• Kerrianne Bower
• Lesley Robinson
• Lesley Skipper
• NICK PULFREY

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• MA CENTRE UK income £249k
• UNITY THEATRE income £630k
• CENTRE4 LIMITED income £3.5m
• NORWICH UNITY HUB income £175k
• SEVERN CENTRE TRUST LTD income £289k

Side by side with its peers

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