London Youth Games Foundation

Registered charity 1048705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON YOUTH GAMES LIMITED

The primary objective is to run the London Youth Games

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 YEARS RESIDENT FOR THE MAIN PART, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE AREA OF GREATER LONDON, AS DEFINED BY THE LONDON GOVERNMENT ACT 1963 OR SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT THEREOF, BY PROVIDING SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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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Registered contact address: Harrow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £381,519 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total reserves of £178,331. Per the trustees' report, these reserves remain below the optimum level of £510,000 required to deliver a reduced Games programme, a gap of £331,669. The trustees attribute this shortfall to changes in sponsorship support and ongoing financial pressures, noting that unrestricted funds alone are insufficient to meet the policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MCA Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02039817 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — London Youth Games (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PARIAG, Elizabeth Jayne — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• KAMARA, Malvin — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• SCOTTON, Hester Raphaella Anne — director, appointed 30/10/2024on trustee list
• WOOLDRIDGE, Andrew John — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• MOORE, Hilary Clare, Cllr — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list
• COOPER-MARBIAH, Caroline Masue — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Geoffrey Llewellyn, Professor — director, appointed 18/07/2022on trustee list
• DAUGHERTY, Neil Abban — director, appointed 05/12/2018on trustee list
• KERRY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 31/03/2004

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geoffrey Llewellyn Thompsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew John Wooldridge
• Caroline Masue Cooper-Marbiah
• Elizabeth Jayne Pariag
• Hester Scotton
• Hilary Clare Moore
• Malvin Kamara
• Neil Daugherty

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

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 LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED.

• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• LONG LANE JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £284k
• JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LONDON income £125k
• THE FEDERATION OF LONDON YOUTH CLUBS income £7.8m
• THE PANATHLON FOUNDATION LIMITED income £967k

Side by side with its peers

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