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Registered charity · Leeds

Institute of OUR Lady of Mercy

Institute of OUR Lady of Mercy is a registered charity (number 290544) based in Leeds, governed by 5 trustees. Latest income £12m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £12m (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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 3 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Kenya, Peru, Ireland and more
Website
www.ourladyofmercy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£18m
  • 2024£15m£24m
  • 2022£9.6m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2021£9.1m£14m
  • 2020£8.9m£15m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK FOR THE TIME BEING CARRIED ON OR TO BE CARRIED ON IN ENGLAND AND WALES OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY OR UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE INSTITUTE INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE NURSING OF SICK POOR AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE SUPERIOR GENERAL THINK FIT .

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.

4y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (5)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Education/training 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£11.9m 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.

68.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 112.0 in 2020

236 from 272 in 2020
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.
6%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
290544
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 24 OCT 1984AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 25 JUN 1992AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 09 MAR 2000AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 31 DEC 2000
Contact on the register
01132500253 · iolm@iolmcio.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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