LEEKE CHURCH SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 527654 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Leeke Educational Foundation

Provides grants to young people aged 16 - 24 who live, or whose parents/carers live, within the City of Lincoln and are in financial need through low family income and/or difficult circumstances. Grants support study at Higher and Further Education, 6th Form, Apprenticeships and Vocational courses and help develop spiritual, moral, physical and mental health well-being.

Objects

THE GOVERNORS MAY APPLY SUCH YEARLY SUMS AS THEY THINK FIT IN MAKING ANNUAL PAYMENTS TO; (1) THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, LINCOLN OR OF ANY OTHER INDEPENDENT OR DIRECT GRANT SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF LINCOLN THE OBJECTS OF WHICH ARE LEGALLY CHARITABLE, IN WHICH RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND WHICH PROVIDE FOR THE EDUCATION OF A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF PUPILS; (2) THE GOVENORS OF THE BISHOP KING CHURCH OF ENGLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL OR TO THE GOVENORS OR MANAGERS OF ANY OTHER VOLUNTARY AIDED OR SPECIAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF LINCOLN IN WHICH RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IS GIVENIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENABLING THE SAID GOVENERS TO COMPLY WITH THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACTS 1944 TO 1967 AND THE REGULATIONS THEREUNDER. THE RESIDUE OF THE NET INCOME OF THE FOUNDATION MAY ALSO BE APPLIED. (FOR DETAILS SEE SCHEME DATED 28TH JULY 1967.)

Area of benefit: CITY OF LINCOLN

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £92,285, which includes a designated property maintenance fund of £94,832. The general fund shows a negative balance of £2,547, a situation the trustees acknowledge and plan to address by reducing the property maintenance fund in the following year. The charity holds significant endowment assets valued at £1,111,023 and generates sufficient investment income to cover its charitable grants and operational costs.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES RAWDING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Daphne Ann Whiteoak
• HELEN CADOGAN
• Jayne Arnold
• Judi Jones
• MICHAEL MARSDEN
• MR STEVE RUDMAN
• Martin Thomas Snee
• PAUL DAVID BREWSTER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rachel Louise Knowles
• Reverend Canon Peter Matthew Mullins
• Simon Mark Edgar

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KELSICK'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

• KELSICK'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £449k
• THE LEIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £579k
• LINCOLN DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £685k
• THE CHURCH TENEMENTS CHARITIES: EDUCATIONAL AND CHURCH BRANCHES income £68k
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION & LYNCX income £236k
• BISHOP LANEY'S CHARITY income £91k

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