Registered charity · Leeds
Caring for Life
- 5 trustees
- Income £4.8m (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
- Education/training, Disability, Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Leeds City
- Website
- www.caringforlife.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Caring for Life
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.8m£4.5m
- 2024£4.1m£4.3m
- 2023£4.9m£4.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.0m£3.9m
- 2021£4.9m£3.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH IN BRINGING THE LOVE AND COMPASSION OF CHRIST JESUS TO MANKIND THROUGH THE RELIEF IN NEED OF PERSONS WHO ARE POOR, HAVE A DISABILITY, ARE INFIRM, OR OTHERWISE IN NEED AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THEIR NEEDS;PROVISION OF TRAINING INCLUDING OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN PAID EMPLOYMENT FOR LIMITED PERIODS; PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE CHARITY'S LAND, BUILDINGS (INCLUDING HISTORIC LISTED BUILDINGS) AND ENVIRONMENT IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PURPOSE OF CARING FOR LIFE IN ALL ITS FORMS.
Grants received
5 grants · £64,353 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £45,000 (2 grants)
- Leeds Community Foundation · £19,353 (3 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.
5 trustees on the board
- Pastor William Ernest Bygroves Chair since 2017
- DR Jonathan William Birnie since 2017
- Mark Bygroves since 2022
- Pamela Bronwen Young since 2017
- Rev Robert Paul Pease since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Pastor William Ernest Bygroves Chair since 2017
- DR Jonathan William Birnie since 2017
- Pamela Bronwen Young since 2017
- Rev Robert Paul Pease since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Rev Robert Paul Pease since 2019
Portfolio (4)
- Pastor William Ernest Bygroves Chair since 2017
- DR Jonathan William Birnie since 2017
- Mark Bygroves since 2022
- Pamela Bronwen Young since 2017
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1174982
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17 AUG 2017 as amended on 13 Oct 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 10921078 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01132303600 · info@caringforlife.co.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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