## Lingfield Living Local
Charity number 1183729
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## Lingfield Living Local
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 4|
|Examiner's report|5|
|Receipts and payments account|6|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8 to 10|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## Lingfield Living Local
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates**
Gareth Poole Wendy Collins Ambreen Ahmed Daniel Bell Howard Dews Zoe Tucker Chris Hill Colin Jordan Marie Bellhouse Alexia Dawson Kathryn Hobdell Ruth Kitson
Chair
Appointed 7 May 2025
Resigned 7 May 2025
Resigned 7 May 2025 Appointed 7 May 2025 Appointed 7 May 2025 Appointed 7 May 2025 Appointed 7 May 2025 Appointed 7 May 2025 Appointed 4 December 2024
**Charity number** 1183729 **Registered and principal address Bankers** 83 Lingfield Drive Triodos Bank UK Ltd Leeds Deanery Road LS17 7HF Bristol BS1 5AS
Registered in England and Wales
## **Independent examiner**
Katy Sargeant ACA
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) formed on 5 June 2019 and is governed by a foundation constitution.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are also the directors for the purposes of company law and are appointed at a duly convened meeting of the trustees.
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## Lingfield Living Local Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The objects of the CIO are:
To develop the capacity and skills of members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community of the Lingfield and Fir Tree estates and the surrounding area in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society.
To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment; in work poverty; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); poor educational or skills attainment; or relationship and family breakdown.
## **The charity's main activities**
Providing a welcoming Hub for community activities and a listening place for isolated or stressed local people.
Organising one off community events.
Planning and delivering programmes or events collaboratively with other local partners.
Developing and maintaining good relationships with statutory agencies involved in the estate.
## **Public benefit statement**
Lingfield Living Local exists to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are social excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.
## **Achievements and performance**
Promoting health and wellbeing, reducing loneliness and isolation and assisting those who are suffering from Food Poverty in our local area.
Our objectives are to provide a welcoming Hub for community activities and a listening place for local people, especially those who are isolated or stressed.
This has been another difficult year with staff changes and uncertainty over future funding. At the end of the year we were reaching towards a more stable situation.
## **Staff**
Naz Karim continued to work with us until March . A second worker, Jennah, was only with us for a short time from May to the end of September when she left to take up a new opportunity. Maninder Soor was appointed in December and is still with us.
## **Regular activities**
Our lunch club continues to thrive and people enjoy a hot meal on Mondays. In December we had our Christmas Dinner, enjoyed by everyone. The lunch club is also an opportunity for people to let us know if they are struggling so that we can give them a supermarket or fuel voucher. We joined the E-Vouchers scheme which makes it easier to manage the vouchers. We also give out food from the freezer if people need it.
We asked people what they liked about lunch club and coming to the Hub, and they said it gave them a reason to get out of the house, a chance to socialise and feel less isolated, and chat to others. As well as enjoying the lunch!
We had outings to Skipton, bowling and the pantomime for some of our regular people. It would be difficult for most of them to afford these activities without help from us.
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## Lingfield Living Local
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Regular activities continued**
The Craft Club have continued to knit and crochet, one member finished a rug that she had been working on for a while, and people have made Halloween and Christmas decorations.
Our wonderful Craft Club volunteer, Doreen, continues to look after our planters and the local roundabout, planting flowers and some herbs, and keeping the roundabout tidy.
Our new Wednesday coffee mornings were slow to take off but are now well established, and have become almost a breakfast club with plenty of toasted teacakes on offer.
We had a visit from councillor Dan Cohen to thank him for helping us to get a grant to upgrade the kitchen. He is always very helpful and listens to any problems that people want to talk about with him.
We continue to work closely with other local organisations. The Alwoodley Community Forum is very useful for exchanging information and sharing problems, and the PCSO calls in regularly.
## **Household Support Fund**
We have once again had funding from the Household Support Fund to support families and others with the effects of the cost of living crisis. We use it to buy food for the lunch club and coffee mornings and to give supermarket or fuel vouchers to those in need. We have to take people on trust when they ask for vouchers but do ask people to come into the Hub if they are not someone we know well.
## **The future**
Our trustee board has struggled with the workload for some time; this, and the funding situation have led us to work more closely with Moortown West Community Association. This should make us more resilient to face the future. We remain two separate organisations but are applying for joint funding and sharing trustees. This has already led to wider use of the Hub and we are optimistic about the future despite the current uncertainty.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £902, including net payments of £-202 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £700 on restricted funds after transfers.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £5,740.
We aim to have enough money in our reserves to cover any winding up costs should we need to close. These would be minimal as we are not tied into any mortgage and we pay a peppercorn rent.
Approved by the board of trustees on 23/12/2025
Wendy Collins (Trustee)
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## Lingfield Living Local
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Lingfield Living Local
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Katy Sargeant ACA
5/1/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Lingfield Living Local Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
200
Bank interest
149
**Total receipts**
349
**Payments**
Salaries, NIC, pensions and payroll costs
-
Training
-
Materials and resources
-
Other direct project costs
-
Food and refreshments
35
Phone and internet
-
Other administration costs
-
Utilities
92
Insurance
-
Equipment
-
Bank charges
20
Independent examination
-
Wellbeing
-
**Total payments**
147
**Net receipts / (payments)**
202
**Fund balances brought forward**
5,538
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
5,740|2025
Restricted
funds
£
39,067
-
39,067
22,336
210
1,179
5,099
2,373
1,257
375
3,866
423
166
-
960
123
38,367
700
16,303
17,003|2025
Total
funds
£
39,267
149
39,416
22,336
210
1,179
5,099
2,408
1,257
375
3,958
423
166
20
960
123
38,514
902
21,841
22,743|2024
Total
funds
£
40,750
150
40,900
24,327
111
1,438
3,258
2,944
778
488
3,605
388
33
60
379
225
38,034
2,866
18,975
21,841|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Lingfield Living Local Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 March 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
5,740
**Total cash funds**
5,740
**Debtors and prepayments**
Prepayments
**Assets retained for the charity's own use**
Basic office equipment including 4 tablet computers, desks etc
Centre equipment including TV, fridge and furniture
Basic kitchen equipment
External shutters
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
Restricted
£
17,003
17,003|2025
Total
£
22,743
22,743
2025
£
106
106
2025
£
960
960|2024
Total
£
21,841
21,841|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 23/12/2025
Wendy Collins (Trustee)
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## Lingfield Living Local
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Lingfield Living Local
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Leeds Christian Community Trust (LCCT)
The Brelms Trust
The Tudor Trust
Leeds City Council (LCC)
Moor Allerton Elderly Care
Moortown Baptist Church
InterACT church
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
The Tudor Trust
12,494
LCC (MICE)
121
Sir George Martin Trust
49
Leeds Inspired
159
The Tudor Trust (Staff)
234
National Lottery Awards for All
494
LCCT H'hold Support Fund (HSF)
330
The Brelms Trust
145
InterACT Warm Spaces
-
Moor Allerton Elderly Care HSF
2,277
LCC
-
16,303|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
200
-
-
-
200
Incoming
£
25,000
-
-
-
-
-
3,300
5,000
1,500
3,267
1,000
39,067|2025
Restricted
funds
£
3,300
5,000
25,000
1,000
3,267
-
1,500
39,067
Outgoing
£
23,038
121
49
159
229
494
2,644
5,145
541
4,947
1,000
38,367|2025
Total
funds
£
3,300
5,000
25,000
1,200
3,267
-
1,500
39,267
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2024
Total
funds
£
4,050
5,000
25,000
200
6,000
500
-
40,750
Balance c/f
£
14,456
-
-
-
5
-
986
-
959
597
-
17,003|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
The Tudor Trust LCC (MICE) Sir George Martin Trust Leeds Inspired The Tudor Trust (Staff)
National Lottery Awards for All LCCT H'hold Support Fund (HSF) The Brelms Trust InterACT Warm Spaces Moor Allerton Elderly Care HSF LCC
## **Purpose of restriction**
Towards salaries and a contribution to overheads. Towards craft packs for the community.
For adaptations to the building (new windows/shutters). Towards painting the communication boxes on the estate. An additional grant from the Tudor Trust, specifically for staff and trustees, for additional support.
For general running costs. For cost of living support. Towards the cost of wages. Towards cost of providing a warm space. For cost of living support. Towards the cost of refurbishing the kitchen
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## Lingfield Living Local
Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
During the year 1 trustee was paid a total of £60 in respect of travel (previous year: nil).
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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