Registered charity · Leeds
The Candlelighters Trust
- 12 trustees
- Income £1.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Keith Anthony HardcastleChair
- Dale PaintingTrustee · since 2024
- David MaymanTrustee · since 2018
- Doctor Edward Michael RichardsTrustee
- Dr Martin ElliottTrustee
- Gregory John FelgateTrustee · since 2020
- John Robert GooddenTrustee · since 2018
- Julie WhiteTrustee · since 2022
- Lisa WildingTrustee · since 2025
- Rohan RandhawaTrustee · since 2023
- Susan Mariea PattersonTrustee · since 2015
- Tom MchughTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Bradford City, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City and more
- Website
- candlelighters.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Candlelighters Trust
- Registered
- 1995
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.9m£2.1m
- 2024£1.8m£2.6m
- 2023£2.1m£2.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.5m£2.1m
- 2021£2.2m£1.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1.THE ALLEVIATION OF THE SUFFERING, AND THE PROMOTION OF THE RELIEF, CARE, WELL-BEING, AND REHABILITATION, OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH ANY FORM OF MALIGNANT DISEASE OR A NON-MALIGNANT BUT LIFE THREATENING HAEMATOLOGICAL DISORDER, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) THOSE WHO ARE OR WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE CARE OF, OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTED BY, HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE;2.THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS FORMERLY UNDER THE CARE OF, OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTED BY, HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE, PARTICULARLY THOSE INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING SERIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR ORIGINAL DISEASE OR DISORDER OR ITS TREATMENT; 3.THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AMONGST FAMILIES AND CARERS OF, OR OTHER PEOPLE PROVIDING SUPPORT TO, INDIVIDUALS FALLING UNDER OBJECTS 1 OR 2 AND THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL AND OTHER SUPPORT IN THEIR ROLE OF CARING FOR SUCH INDIVIDUALS; 4.THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES AS MAY BE LEGALLY CHARITABLE IN THE WORK OF HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT FOR USE WITHIN HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OF HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE AND THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, IN WHATEVER WAYS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TRAINING WITHIN OR CONNECTED WITH HOSPITALS IN YORKSHIRE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.
Grants received
13 grants · £127,738 total360Giving 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £41,452 (2 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £34,112 (3 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000
- The James Tudor Foundation · £10,000
- Sir George Martin Trust · £6,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Keith Anthony Hardcastle Chair
- Doctor Edward Michael Richards
- Dale Painting since 2024
- David Mayman since 2018
- Dr Martin Elliott
- Gregory John Felgate since 2020
- John Robert Goodden since 2018
- Julie White since 2022
- Lisa Wilding since 2025
- Rohan Randhawa since 2023
- Susan Mariea Patterson since 2015
- Tom Mchugh since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- David Mayman since 2018
- Gregory John Felgate since 2020
- John Robert Goodden since 2018
- Susan Mariea Patterson since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Keith Anthony Hardcastle Chair
- Doctor Edward Michael Richards
- Dale Painting since 2024
- David Mayman since 2018
- Gregory John Felgate since 2020
- John Robert Goodden since 2018
- Julie White since 2022
- Lisa Wilding since 2025
- Rohan Randhawa since 2023
- Susan Mariea Patterson since 2015
- Tom Mchugh since 2025
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
11.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 14.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1045077
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/02/1995NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 21/01/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 FEB 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 MAR 2017 as amended on 13 Jun 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 03020552 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0113 3229283 · info@candlelighters.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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