BOLTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1001884 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON YMCA

Our main activities :youth and community work, play and children's work, health sports and fitness, Youth Cafe, detached youth work. personal and social development for people who are disadvantaged by poverty, disability, health issues, young offenders, members of minority community groups enabling them to develop and make a positive contribution to the community in which they live.,

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOLTON. 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF THE PUBLIC IN BOLTON. 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN BOLTON. 4.THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE. 5. PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PERSONS IN BOLTON.

Area of benefit: BOLTON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bolton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the audit was completed without significant difficulties and there were no comments on the qualitative aspects of accounting practices. The filing indicates that audit adjustments were agreed upon and incorporated into the financial statements, with immaterial unadjusted differences noted.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aaron James Flemonschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Blackburn YMCA
• Graham Richard Sebastian Oatridge · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janine Browne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorraine Prentice
• Mark Pattinson
• Tim Andrew Shackell · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Lancashire · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Wigan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BARGOED AND DISTRICT BRANCH.

• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BARGOED AND DISTRICT BRANCH income £119k
• MANCHESTER YEDAM CHURCH income £61k
• TAUNTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £46k
• BLACKBURN YMCA income £2.1m
• CARDIFF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £737k
• DONCASTER YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £717k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.