THE UNDERCLIFFE CEMETERY CHARITY

Registered charity 519751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRADFORD (UNDERCLIFFE) CEMETERY COMPANY

For the public benefit to operate maintain and preserve and promote Undercliffe Cemetery for all or any of the following purposes:-1 The burial of the dead, including provision for ashes, 2. the provision of a community open space 3. The advancement of education 4 Preservation protection & development of features of historic or educational interest including preservation of war graves & memorials.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO OPERATE, MAINTAIN AND PRESERVE UNDERCLIFFE CEMETERY FOR ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES: (1) AN OPEN SPACE (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE LOCAL, AND NATIONAL, SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE NATURAL HISTORY, INCLUDING ORNITHOLOGY AND BOTANY, OF THE CEMETERY AND ITS ENVIRONS (3) THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD (4) THE PRESERVATION,PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURES OF HISTORIC OR EDUCATIONAL INTEREST, INCLUDING THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE CEMETERY, AND IN PARTICULAR THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF EXISTING MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND GRAVES THEREIN WHICH ARE OF EDUCATIONAL INTEREST.

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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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £29,716 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £103,348 to £73,632. Per the trustees' report, this deficit reflects steady and responsible financial management despite revenue from plot sales and services contributing significantly to income. The charity remains solvent with unrestricted funds of £49,346 and no disclosed material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 15/11/2024, 15 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 08/01/2024, 69 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01973400 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• CROSSLEY, Susan — director, appointed 12/05/2025on trustee list
• TYNE, Andrew Graham — director, appointed 12/05/2025not on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Geoffrey Horace — director, appointed 12/05/2025on trustee list
• OLIVER, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 18/11/2024on trustee list
• HARDY, Timothy — director, appointed 08/09/2021on trustee list
• HALIDAY, Gaynor Margaret — director, appointed 08/09/2021on trustee list
• JACKSON, John Charles — director, appointed 27/11/2014on trustee list
• ACKROYD, Jonathan Mark, Mr. — director, appointed 26/01/2012on trustee list
• SCHOLEFIELD, John Alexander, Mr. — director, appointed 19/05/2009on trustee list
• BIRD, Christopher John — director, appointed 13/05/2008on trustee list
• AMBLER, Jacqueline Lucy — directoron trustee list
• BIRD, Christopher John — secretary, appointed 10/09/2019

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER JOHN BIRD
• Gaynor Haliday
• Geoffrey Horace Simpson
• JACQUELINE LUCY AMBLER
• JONATHAN MARK ACKROYD
• John Alan Lawless
• John Charles Jackson
• Rebecca Louise Oliver
• Susan Crossley
• Timothy Hardy

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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• FIELDS CHURCH income £117k
• SIMPLE REASON income £61k

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