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YMCA DERBYSHIRE

Registered charity 1049904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DERBY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (INC)

YMCA Derbyshire is an organisation that aims to provide quality services for the benefit of homeless people & people at risk of social or educational exclusion. We provide supported accommodation, vocational training, information, advice & guidance & as a childcare provider offer out of school childcare provision,integrated playschemes for special educational needs and mainstream children.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£7.2m
Latest spending
£6.7m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £549,807 and held unrestricted free reserves of £278,183, which is below the stated policy target of £0.9m to £1.35m. The organization remains a going concern with sufficient cash reserves to secure its immediate future despite significant capital investment.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £90,000 - £100,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)
“£90,000 - £100,000 1” — page 36
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 2
“Two employees earned more than £60,000 (exclusive of company pension and national insurance contributions) in the year”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Housing (50% of income)
“Income from charitable activities Housing 3,579,350”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Fundraising cost ratio: 7.2% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Fundraising costs 66,927 65,061 131,988 68,045” — page 22
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: two and three months of expected unrestricted operating expenditure (held: £278k)
“The Board’s target for free reserves is to be between two and three months of expected unrestricted operating expenditure. At the end of July 2024 this equates to a level of free reserves between £0.9m and £1.35m.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

Corporate structure

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £510k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2024)

Total income
£7.2m
Total spending
£6.7m
Cost of raising funds
£248k
Reserves (reported)
£278k
Employees
167

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2024£7.2m£6.7m
31/07/2023£6.6m£5.4m
31/07/2022£4.1m£4.0m
31/07/2021£4.0m£3.7m
31/07/2020£3.6m£3.4m

Common questions

Is YMCA DERBYSHIRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The charity reported a net surplus of £549,807 and held unrestricted free reserves of £278,183, which is below the stated policy target of £0.9m to £1.35m. The organization remains a going concern with sufficient cash reserves to secure its immediate future despite significant capital investment. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Dains Audit Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of YMCA DERBYSHIRE earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £90,000 - £100,000 band, and 2 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds YMCA DERBYSHIRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YMCA DERBYSHIRE as a grant recipient include GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATIONFY2024£200kYouth
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£5k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund28/11/2024£493kPositive Pathways - Community Hub
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/03/2023£185k"Past:Present:Work"
UK government01/04/2022£23kYMCA DERBYSHIRE
The National Lottery Community Fund26/11/2018£44kCampus Community Hub
Sport England20/06/2017£8kYMCA Derbyshire Active Lives
The National Lottery Community Fund20/04/2016£283kThreshold to Success
Sport England02/01/2013£480Indoor Ping YMCA Derbyshire
The National Lottery Community Fund13/09/2012£6kCooking with Confidence

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST2£105k
LANDAID CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED1£147k
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire1£146k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY1£93k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED1£22k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SPRINGFIELD, DIOCESE OF CHELMSFORD1£9k
BELMONT EXETER1£7k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, STRETTON WITH CLAYMILLS1£6k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YMCA.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
YMCA DERBYSHIRE£7.2m£90,000 - £100,0002unclear7.2%no doubt
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YMCA FY2025£534k—0unclear—no doubt
YMCA NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LTD. FY2025£6.3m——unclear—no doubt
BURTON UPON TRENT AND DISTRICT YMCA FY2025£2.1m£60,001 - £69,9991unclear—no doubt
YMCA WEARSIDE LTD FY2024£2.0m—0unclear—no doubt
WORCESTER YMCA FY2025£1.6m—0above—no doubt

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