THE BASEMENT YOUTH TRUST GROUP, ROSS-ON-WYE

Registered charity 1047127 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support and provision of services to young people 11-18 years in the Ross-on-Wye district; eg drop-in sessions, professional training workshops in areas of interest to young people and informal sports sessions. Beneficiaries include deprived and harder-to-reach young individuals. Main location is 'The Venue' (formerly Y-zone) in Ross-on-Wye. The charity is also known as The Basement Trust Limited.

Objects

To provide and maintain a youth centre for the purpose of helping and educating young people through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical and mental capacities, so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE, ROSS-ON-WYE AND DISTRICT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted funds of £0 and restricted funds of £14,943 as of 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds of £14,943. The filing notes that the company was entitled to exemption from audit and that the members did not require an audit. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03721898

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.

• RICHARDS, Anne Christine — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Steve — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• CLIFTON, Talbot James Nassau — director, appointed 12/11/2023on trustee list
• WILDING, Keith Bernard — director, appointed 20/10/2004on trustee list
• ORR, Alexander Ferguson, Dr — secretary, appointed 25/08/2020

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Christine Richardschair
• KEITH BERNARD WILDING
• Richard Keith McEvoy
• Steve Richards
• Talbot James Nassau Clifton

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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