ACTION 4 YOUTH

Registered charity 1033626 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION4YOUTH

The objects of charity are to help and educate children and young people, through informal education and leisure time activities to develop their physical, mental and spiritual, moral and cultural capabilities, to achieve their full potential, that they may grow up to full maturity, as responsible individuals and members of their communities and society.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THROUGH INFORMAL EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND CULTURAL CAPACITIES, TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THAT THEY MAY GROW UP TO FULL MATURITY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a significant loss for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £2,173,849 to £1,954,758. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that the balance sheet and cash position provide a solid foundation to manage future challenges, with unrestricted reserves of £774,684 held against a policy target of £235,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hillier Hopkins LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025) to £60,001 - £70,000 (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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action4Youth (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Benedicta Morrow — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Milton Keynes Business Improvement District — “ACTION4YOUTH SUPPORTERS We are grateful for the support by the following grant funders, businesses and individuals. Milton Keynes Business I…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Douglaschair
• David Robert Apperly
• Giles Harvey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Louise Eldred
• Itay Haber
• Nicholas Peters
• Nicholas Stinton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DEANS YOUTH PROJECT.

• THE DEANS YOUTH PROJECT income £34k
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £805k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• YOUTH ADVENTURE TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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