COMMUNITY FIRST YORKSHIRE LTD

Registered charity 515538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RURAL ACTION YORKSHIRE LIMITED, YORKSHIRE RURAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL

To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community particularly in Yorkshire and the surrounding area in particular the advancement of education and health and the relief of poverty and distress, the sustainability of rural life, or in pursuing any other charitable purposes by promoting and organising cooperation in the achievement of the said purposes.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £163,609 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £215,320, which the trustees consider sufficient to allow time to seek new funding sources while meeting ongoing obligations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fortus Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Colthup — Chief Executive (source)
• Dena — Deputy Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN Stuart WILLIS
• DAVID SHARP · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID WATSON
• Dr Rebecca Claire Buckley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Jane Terzza
• Richard Anthony Jones

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Doncaster · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE).

• COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE) income £144k
• COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF LANCASHIRE income £738k
• COMMUNITY FIRST OXFORDSHIRE income £576k
• COMMUNITY FIRST income £3.3m
• COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SUPPORT CONWY income £3.0m
• THE YORKSHIRE YOUNG ACHIEVERS FOUNDATION income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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