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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

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 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

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.

4.9y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12

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 12Professional services 5Business services 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

11.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 14.5 in 2021

33 from 31 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
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
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