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Registered charity · Leeds

The William Merritt Disabled Living Centre

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City and more
Website
www.wmdlc.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The William Merritt Disabled Living Centre
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£944k£1.1m
  • 2021£948k£882k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 72%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

Grants received

1 grant · £294,204 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

  • Department for Transport · £294,204

Most recent

  • Department for Transport £294,2042016-04-01
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.

7.6y median 8y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 14Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

6.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.1 in 2021

29 from 20 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
513001
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AN ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 28 MAY 1982 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 4 APRIL 1986 AND BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 DECEMBER 1993 AND 19 NOVEMBER 2003
Companies House
Company number 01638939 · Active
Contact on the register
01133508989 · info@wmdlc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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