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Registered charity · Leeds

Yorkshire Mesmac

Yorkshire Mesmac is a registered charity (number 1040407) based in Leeds, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Stephen Craig Bridge since 2013. Latest income £1.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.mesmac.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Mesmac
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 84%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL AND IN PARTICULAR GOOD SEXUAL HEALTH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT SHOULDER THE HIGHEST BURDEN OF POOR HEALTH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN, LGBT+ YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOUR AND OTHER PEOPLE MARGINALISED BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY OR NATIONALITY, PEOPLE USING DRUGS AND SEX WORKERS. TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP STRONG COMMUNITIES WHICH CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT FOR BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES AND THE REDUCTION OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES.

Grants received

16 grants · £1,528,094 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £683,140 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £385,600
  • Comic Relief · £228,459 (3 grants)
  • Henry Smith Foundation · £150,000
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £33,423

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £315,8052026-01-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8522023-01-27
  • Leeds Community Foundation £23,0722022-03-15
  • Leeds Community Foundation £2,4002021-09-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002020-09-22
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

6y median 5.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.5 in 2021

33 from 52 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1040407
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 AUGUST 1994 as amended on 14 Oct 2021
Companies House
Company number 02958336 · Active
Contact on the register
01132444209 · admin@mesmac.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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