REDTHREAD YOUTH LIMITED

Registered charity 1051260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN YOUTH AND SCHOOLS CHARITABLE COMPANY, REDTHREAD

Youth Work - to provide, and support, youthwork which focuses on the holistic wellbeing of young people: body, mind and soul.To walk alongside the young people we engage with, as they journey into adulthood.

Objects

(1) the advancement of health or saving of lives through the preservation andprotection of the health and wellbeing of young people by providing and assisting inthe provision of facilities, counselling, support services and equipment not normallyprovided by the statutory authorities(2) the advancement of education of young people through the provision of informationand outreach to improve their health and wellbeing

Area of benefit: SOUTH LONDON AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased operations and transferred all activities, assets, and liabilities to its parent charity, Catch22, on 1 April 2025. Consequently, the financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern, and the legal entity no longer carries out any activities. The charity reported a surplus for the period but had unrestricted reserves of £839,477 prior to the transfer.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03131121

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Assura Community Fund — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• Barrow Cadbury Trust — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• Charles Hayward Foundation — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• City Bridge Foundation — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• EBM Charitable Trust — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• Hiscox Foundation UK — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• Islamic Relief UK — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• John Armitage Charitable Trust — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• John Ellerman Foundation — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• John Lyon’s Charity — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• King’s College Hospital Charity — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• London Borough of Camden — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• London Violence Reduction Unit — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)
• NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board — “Our funders We are funded by a wide range of charities, trusts, foundations, and statutory bodies. We are very grateful to our funders and d…” (source page)

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, Nigel Paul — director, appointed 01/06/2025on trustee list
• CANNIFORD, Andrew — director, appointed 12/08/2024on trustee list
• SUTHERLAND, Emer Caitriona Eileen, Dr — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Canniford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Emer Caitriona Eileen Sutherland
• Nigel Richards · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTH LIMITED.

• SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTH LIMITED income £114k
• YOUTH FIRST CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £1.7m
• YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SOLUTIONS LTD income £127k
• YOUTH CHARTER income £227k
• YOUTH EDUCATION SUPPORT SERVICES LONDON income £0
• ACTION 4 YOUTH income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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