West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Analysis

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO reported income of £478k and spending of £521k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £400k to £478k (+19%), an average of +4.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The South Bristol Church and Community Trust (£477k), The Berin Centre (£478k) and Plympton St Maurice Childcare Centre (£476k).

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.