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The Leeds Society for Deaf & Blind People

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 83

  1. Rachael Sweeting 2021-2022 Director View profile
  2. Charis Green 2021-2023 Director View profile
  3. Hashim Mahmood 2019-2025 Director View profile
  4. William Lumsden 2019-2021 Director View profile
  5. David Robinson 2019-2023 Director View profile
  6. William Finney 2018-2024 Director View profile
  7. Rahim Ali Karim 2017-2022 Director View profile
  8. Reverend Mark Gordon Robert Davenport Smith 2017-2018 Director View profile
  9. Craig Jones 2017-2018 Director View profile
  10. Sarah Millar 2015-2017 Director View profile
  11. Zara Emery 2015-2018 Director View profile
  12. Kerry Milwain 2015-2018 Director View profile
  13. Martin John Dodgson 2015-2017 Director View profile
  14. Nick Mctague 2015-2022 Director View profile
  15. Alan Leadbeater Oldroyd 2015-2018 Director View profile
  16. Judith Baron 2013-2015 Director View profile
  17. Jaqueline Hurst 2013-2014 Director View profile
  18. Mary Naylor 2013-2023 Director View profile
  19. Carole Boyes 2013-2015 Director View profile
  20. Edward Pollard 2012-2013 Director View profile
  21. Sue Horseman-Backhouse 2012-2014 Director View profile
  22. Susan Lee 2012-2014 Director View profile
  23. Christopher Bojas 2012-2013 Director View profile
  24. Anna Lawson 2012-2013 Director View profile
  25. Paul Landey 2012-2025 Director View profile
  26. Hilary Margaret Adolfson 2012-2023 Director View profile
  27. Bryan Matthews 2012-2013 Director View profile
  28. David Cockroft 2012-2014 Director View profile
  29. Julie Lambert 2012-2012 Director View profile
  30. Maureen Wood 2012-2019 Director View profile
  31. Thomas Bonner 2012-2012 Director View profile
  32. Martin Smith 2012-2012 Director View profile
  33. Andrew Murray Holmes 2012-2015 Director View profile
  34. Alison Spear 2012-2024 Director View profile
  35. Ann Beilby 2012-2012 Director View profile
  36. Barry Naylor 2012-2012 Director View profile
  37. Shirley Lockwood 2012-2012 Director View profile
  38. Janet Elizabeth Pearson 2012-2012 Director View profile
  39. Craig Moxon 2012-2012 Director View profile
  40. Sallie Holmes 2012-2012 Director View profile
  41. Duncan Wood 2012-2013 Director View profile
  42. John Lockwood 2012-2012 Director View profile
  43. Diane Frances Colville 2012-2012 Director View profile
  44. Andrew David Preston 2010-2012 Director View profile
  45. Simon Spear 2010-2011 Director View profile
  46. Kenton Robbins 2010-2012 Director View profile
  47. Samantha Green 2007-2011 Director View profile
  48. Andrew Stanley 2007-2009 Director View profile
  49. Gary Peck 2007-2009 Director View profile
  50. Christine Jane Nash 2006-2009 Director View profile
  51. Barry Tebbs 2006-2007 Director View profile
  52. Graham Roberts 2006-2010 Director View profile
  53. Anderson, Barry John, Cllr 2005-2008 Director View profile
  54. Caroline Lucy Darnbrook 2005-2009 Director View profile
  55. Lancaster, Brenda, Cllr 2005-2008 Director View profile
  56. Paul Paley 2004-2008 Director View profile
  57. Paul Young 2004-2005 Director View profile
  58. Roy Granville Taylor 2002-2004 Director View profile
  59. Linda Clough 2001-2011 Director View profile
  60. Michael Gerwart 2000-2012 Director View profile
  61. Alec Hudson 1999-2008 Director View profile
  62. Jacqueline Hurst 1999-2006 Director View profile
  63. Stephen Goulding 1999-2012 Director View profile
  64. Roslyn Robinson 1999-2001 Director View profile
  65. Glyn Mark Royal 1998-2006 Director View profile
  66. Andrew Paul Keefe 1997-2008 Director View profile
  67. Lucy Jane Hailey Clapham 1997-2001 Director View profile
  68. Ralph Fieldhouse 1995-1998 Director View profile
  69. Reverend John Frederick Hamilton 1993-2008 Director View profile
  70. Swapna Mcneil 1992-2005 Director View profile
  71. John Leslie Carter 1993 Director View profile
  72. Harry Dodds 2007 Director View profile
  73. Martin Orr Milligan 1993 Director View profile
  74. Edmund Richard Vaughan 1992 Director View profile
  75. Peter Geoffrey Wooler 2008 Director View profile
  76. Vyvyan Mary Cardno 1995 Director View profile
  77. John Halstead Robins 2001 Director View profile
  78. Janet Lovell 1992 Director View profile
  79. Kenneth John Goddard 1999 Director View profile
  80. James Richard Hughes 2006 Director View profile
  81. Margaret Waterhouse 2003 Director View profile
  82. Robert Anthony Young 2008-2012 Secretary View profile
  83. Jonathan Joseph Bentley 2005-2008 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Other education n.e.c.; Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
Incorporated
01/03/1917
Registered office
Leeds
Also a registered charity
The Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People

Grants received

5 grants · £190,436 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

  • Power to Change Trust £8,0002022-11-29
  • Leeds Community Foundation £30,0002022-03-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £6,3792009-01-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,9432005-08-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £142,1142005-05-10
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

6 directors on the board

9.2y median 9.8y
average tenure
13.9y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (6)

1
also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together
  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; a director with board experience elsewhere.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00146281
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
31/12/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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