Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company enters creditors' voluntary liquidation
Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company, which ran the Bramley Community Café and Shop in Leeds, has entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 27 May 2026. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company, registered in West Yorkshire and trading from Bramley Shopping Centre in Leeds, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 27 May 2026 after members and creditors resolved to wind up the organisation.
A creditors' voluntary liquidation, or CVL, is an insolvent winding-up resolved by the company's members at the directors' request, without a court order. It is the single largest stream of UK corporate insolvency by volume.
The liquidator
Christopher Brooksbank of CB Business Recovery Ltd has been appointed liquidator with effect from 27 May 2026. Brooksbank holds IP number 9658. CB Business Recovery Ltd is based at Ground Floor Offices, Riverside Mills, Saddleworth Road, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0RY. Brooksbank can be contacted on 01422 485690 or at chris@cb-br.co.uk.
The company
Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company was incorporated on 10 March 2006 and describes its nature of business as community fundraising. Its principal trading address was Units 18 and 23 at Bramley Shopping Centre, Leeds, LS13 2ET, where it ran the Bramley Community Cafe and Community Shop. The CIC's registered office at the time of the notice was Ground Floor Offices, Riverside Mills, Saddleworth Road, Elland, HX5 0RY.
Companies House records show the organisation filed its last accounts made up to 30 March 2025 on a total-exemption-full basis, with next accounts due by 30 December 2026.
The officers
Lee Robert Ingham is the sole current officer, having served as both director and company secretary since 22 January 2009, with no resignation recorded.
Four directors resigned before the liquidation date. Brett Jacob served as a director from 23 December 2024 until 8 May 2026. Steve Taylor served as a director from 23 December 2024 until 6 March 2026. Sally Anne McHale served as a director from 10 May 2006 until 16 March 2026. Stewart Paul Firth served as a director from 15 August 2014 until 18 April 2025.
Several earlier directors also appear on the Companies House record. Edward Joseph Friel served as both director and secretary from 16 January 2008 until 4 June 2013. Edmund Anthony Hanley was a director from 10 May 2006 until 1 December 2017. Barrie Richard Smith was a director from 10 March 2006 until 1 February 2014. Andrew Robert Joyce was a director from 30 June 2006 until 16 January 2008. Sheila Mahon and Laura Taggart, the latter of whom also held the role of secretary, both resigned on 8 October 2008. Paul Adam Smith served as a director from 15 December 2014 until 21 March 2016. Paul Smith served as a director from 30 November 2017 until 6 May 2021.
No secured charges are registered against the company.
Common questions
Are you owed money by Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company?
In a creditors' voluntary liquidation you are an unsecured creditor unless you hold a registered charge or retention of title. The liquidators will write to known creditors with a proof-of-debt form. A statement of affairs prepared by the directors and the chair of the creditors' decision procedure should be available on request. Read more about proof of debt and where you sit in the creditor hierarchy.
Did you work at Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company?
In a CVL, employees are typically dismissed at or shortly after the liquidator's appointment. Wages owed up to a statutory cap, holiday pay, notice pay and redundancy may be claimable from the Redundancy Payments Service. The liquidators will normally provide RP1 case-reference numbers to the affected staff. See gov.uk: your rights if your employer is insolvent.
Do you hold a deposit, gift card or undelivered order from Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company?
Customers with paid-but-undelivered orders, gift cards or deposits rank as unsecured creditors in the liquidation. Where you paid by credit card and the amount was over £100, Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 may let you claim from the card issuer for breach of contract or misrepresentation by the supplier; the rules apply per item, not per transaction, and the card must be a regulated credit card. Debit-card payments may be recoverable via chargeback.
Are you a director of a company connected to Upbeat Social Enterprises Community Interest Company?
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 applies the moment the company enters liquidation. If you intend to be involved in another company using the same or a similar name within five years, you must rely on one of the three statutory exceptions and file the relevant notice. Acting in breach is a criminal offence and exposes you to personal liability for the successor's debts.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Appointment of Liquidators)
- Companies House record 05738894
- Editorial standards: how we source and review; five-pass pipeline.
