YOUTH OPTIONS

Registered charity 1056463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH OPTIONS

Education, training and activities with children and young people

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIFE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, PROVIDED SUCH OBJECT IS CHARITABLE. THE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH WHOM THE CHARITY WORKS INCLUDE THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE OR VULNERABILITY

Area of benefit: HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT

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

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

Registered contact address: Eastleigh, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £3,822,415, driven largely by a £1,000,182 capital grant, resulting in a surplus of £40,849 when excluding capital funds. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £617,545, which is below the stated policy target range of £695,350 to £1,390,700 (three to six months of expenditure). The trustees expressed confidence in their financial soundness despite rising staff and property costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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)

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

• Trading subsidiary: YOUTH OPTIONS CENTRES LIMITED Companies House 02898083
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03184237 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Youth Options (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.

• MCCULLAGH, Patrick Henry Charles — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
• LEE, Lorraine Cleanoria — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
• MARTIN, John David Fleming — director, appointed 21/07/2025on trustee list
• SPENCER, Emily Jean — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• HANNIGAN, Marie — director, appointed 16/10/2023on trustee list
• NORTH, Peter — director, appointed 20/03/2023on trustee list
• DAGWELL, Jennifer Karen — director, appointed 23/11/2020on trustee list
• PERRY, Roy James — director, appointed 20/01/2020on trustee list
• COLLIS, Diana — director, appointed 24/05/2010on trustee list
• DURIE, Madeleine Rachael — secretary, appointed 04/05/2021

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.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 4.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER NORTHchair
• Diana Collis
• Emily Spencer
• Ian Smart
• Jennifer Dagwell
• John Martin
• Lorraine Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marie Hannigan
• Patrick McCullagh
• Roy James Perry · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Southampton City

Income and spending

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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 WORKING OPTIONS IN EDUCATION.

• WORKING OPTIONS IN EDUCATION income £620k
• YOUTH IN ACTION FOUNDATION income £60k
• YOUTH ALMIGHTY PROJECT income £674k
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• YOUTH EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY income £70k

Side by side with its peers

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