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Registered charity · Leeds

Leeds Culture Trust

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Leeds City
Website
ARMSTRONGWATSON.CO.UK (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Leeds Culture Trust
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025--
  • 2024£10m£9.9m
  • 2023£8.0m£9.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.1m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 32%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE RESIDENTS OF LEEDS AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE.2. TO PROMOTE THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION; ANDB) SUPPORTING CHARITIES, ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER NOT FOR PROFIT BODIES AND INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN THE PROVISION OF ARTISTIC, CULTURAL AND HERITAGE ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS.

Grants received

6 grants · £3,335,656 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 Heritage Fund · £2,749,952
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £250,194
  • Spirit of 2012 · £249,949
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £37,561
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £25,000

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.

6y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (3)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Education/training 6Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Arts and leisure 11Manufacturing 5Finance 3

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.

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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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.3m latest income
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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 71.2 in 2021

87 from 7 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
1184883
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 APR 2019
Companies House
Company number 10674601 · Liquidation
Contact on the register
01132211398 · ELENA.HUNTER@ARMSTRONGWATSON.CO.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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