CITY OF BRADFORD YMCA

Registered charity 1045373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRADFORD YMCA

Helping children, young people and families to participate fully in their communities, providing informal education, training and personal development opportunities particularly targeted at those not in employment, education or training or from deprived communities. Positive activities and providing intensive support for young people, environmental projects and youth work.

Objects

1.TO UNITE THOSE WHO,REGARDING JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR GOD AND SAVIOUR ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,DESIRE TO BE HIS DISCIPLES IN THEIR FAITH AND IN THEIR LIFE, AND TO ASSOCIATE THEIR EFFORTS FOR THE EXTENSION OF HIS KINGDOM. 2.TO LEAD YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO FULLNESS OF LIFE IN HIM. 3.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £10,174 for the year, with total unrestricted funds of £682,435. The trustees state that reserves are maintained at a level equivalent to at least three months' budgeted expenditure (£300,000), which is above the current unrestricted balance. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, supported by forecasts extending to October 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Lakes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Smith
• Pastor John Adereti · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROLAND CLARK · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bradford City

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 YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH.

• YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH income £9.5m
• THE CITY OF LEEDS YMCA income £396k
• WORCESTER YMCA income £1.6m
• YMCA Dulverton Group income £15.8m
• BRADFORD CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £987k
• YMCA Plymouth Ltd income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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