Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store CIO

Analysis

Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store CIO reported income of £182k and spending of £210k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £228k to £182k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store CIO sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heart of Holbrooks (£182k), Action Station South Tyneside Limited (£182k) and Shepshed Word of Life Church (£182k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.