Otley Road and Undercliffe Community Works

Analysis

Otley Road and Undercliffe Community Works is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in April 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05262323). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Otley Road and Undercliffe Community Works reported income of £590k and spending of £536k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £521k to £590k (+13%), an average of +3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Otley Road and Undercliffe Community Works sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Equity Charitable Trust (£590k), Keren Ezra Mimtzika (£591k) and Lifelines International Fund for Education (£589k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 50%, donations and legacies 34%, trading 10% and investments 4.0%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £631k would cover about 14 months of spending at that rate. It employed 21 people.