Leys Community Development Initiative

Analysis

Leys Community Development Initiative is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06918476). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Leys Community Development Initiative reported income of £114k and spending of £97k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £81k to £114k (+39%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 144%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Leys Community Development Initiative sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Trinity Vineyard Church (£113k), New Life Church, Great Cornard (£114k) and The Martin Smith Foundation (£113k).