YMCA St Paul's Group

Registered charity 1041923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KINGSTON AND WIMBLEDON YMCA, YMCA LONDON SOUTH WEST, YMCA ST PAULS GROUP

THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, WITH A FOCUS ON YOUNG PEOPLE.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£30.2m

Latest spending

£29.2m

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group achieved a reduced operating surplus of £731k for the year ended 31 March 2025, which included a one-off operating loss of £777k from expensing a segregated cash reserve. Excluding this one-off impact, the operating surplus would have grown by 16% year-on-year, and the Group maintained unrestricted reserves of £34.5m against a policy target of three months of management and administration costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Our principal sources of income arise from our charitable activities of providing Housing & Support, Health & Wellbeing services and Children’s, Youth & Family Work.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months of management and administration costs (held: £34.5m)

“We intend to maintain unrestricted funds at a sufficient level to cover management and administration costs for at least three months.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The Charity is affiliated to the National Council of YMCAs for England and Wales. The pension scheme is run by an independent Trustee board with employer representation through the Principal Employer, National Council of YMCAs. The accounts note related party transactions but do not list specific amounts in the provided text snippet for Note 27, only the header. However, Note 24 mentions the Principal Employer. Without specific transaction amounts in Note 27 text, I must rely on explicit statements. The text says '27. Related party transactions' but provides no content under it in the snippet. I will check if any other related party info is explicit. Note 24 mentions the scheme is run by an independent Trustee board with employer representation through the Principal Employer. This is a structural relationship. No specific transaction amounts are listed in the visible text for Note 27. I will set this to empty as per rule 1 (never guess).

“27. Related party transactions” — page 68

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £9.1m

“The valuation prepared as at 1 May 2023 showed that the YMCA Pension Plan had a deficit of £9.1m.” — page 67

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Buzzacott LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

Regulator of Social Housing — YMCA St Paul's Group: governance G1 viability V2 consumer - (-)

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

New Chair appointed at YMCA St Paul’s Group charitytoday.co.uk · 01/04/2026

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 02971930

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Ian Adams MBE — Chair of Trustee Board (source)
Graham Beech — Vice Chair of Trustee Board (source)
Judith Banjoko — Board Safeguarding Lead (source)
Edith Parker ACMA — Chair of Audit and Risk Committee (source)
John Swarbrick — Chair of the Treasury Working Group and Chair of the Youth Project (source)
Allan Wickham — Chair of Development & Assets Committee (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

LEE, Kurtis Marcus — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
CHESWICK, Amy — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
MCLEAN ADAMS, Ian — director, appointed 28/05/2025not on trustee list
PARKER, Edith — director, appointed 28/05/2025on trustee list
EASTMOND, Richard — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
DANGANA, David Sokomba — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
BANJOKO, Judith Anne Clare — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
SHAH-LITTLE, Daniel James — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
SWARBRICK, John — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
WICKHAM, Allan John Bartlett — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
STERN, Christopher John — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
BEECH, Graham — director, appointed 23/01/2020on trustee list
SHANKS, Peter, Dr — secretary, appointed 07/01/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

31 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (17 freehold); recorded price paid £2.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: YMCA St Paul's Group — Deregistered, 3 registered locations, last inspected 17/04/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£30.2m

Total spending

£29.2m

Reserves (reported)

£34.4m

Employees

327

Reported reserves equal ~14.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (26/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (08/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Allan Wickham
Amy Cheswick
Christopher Stern · trustee of 1 other charity
Daniel Shah-Little
David Dangana
Edith Parker
Graham Beech
Ian McLean Adams
John Richard Swarbrick
Judith Banjoko
Kurtis Lee
Richard Eastmond · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Slough · Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£30.2m	£29.2m
31/03/2024	£28.7m	£26.3m
31/03/2023	£26.3m	£26.2m
31/03/2022	£24.5m	£24.4m
31/03/2021	£23.7m	£23.4m

Common questions

Is YMCA St Paul's Group financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Group achieved a reduced operating surplus of £731k for the year ended 31 March 2025, which included a one-off operating loss of £777k from expensing a segregated cash reserve. Excluding this one-off impact, the operating surplus would have grown by 16% year-on-year, and the Group maintained unrestricted reserves of £34.5m against a policy target of three months of management and administration costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott LLP.

Who funds YMCA St Paul's Group?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YMCA St Paul's Group as a grant recipient include LANDAID CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED, SSP FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
LANDAID CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED	FY2025	£9k
SSP FOUNDATION	FY2025	£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/02/2015	£318k	YMCA Inclusive Lives
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/07/2005	£3k	Hostels Music Studio

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST	2	£105k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	2	£27k
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£500k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY	1	£93k
THE SIR JAMES KNOTT TRUST	1	£60k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£55k
THE GREIG TRUST	1	£27k
Point North Community Foundation	1	£24k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YMCA St Paul's Youth Project.

YMCA St Paul's Youth Project income £204k
YMCA Chiltern Group income £31.0m
YMCA ROBIN HOOD GROUP income £25.3m
YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH income £9.5m
YMCA BRUNEL GROUP income £10.4m
YMCA NORTH TYNESIDE income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
YMCA St Paul's Group	£30.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YMCA St Paul's Youth Project FY2025	£204k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YMCA Chiltern Group FY2025	£31.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YMCA ROBIN HOOD GROUP FY2025	£25.3m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH FY2025	£9.5m	£103,490	—	below	—	no doubt
YMCA BRUNEL GROUP FY2025	£10.4m	£90,000 - £95,000	1	below	—	no doubt

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