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

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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.

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

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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
• Jennifer Dagwell
• John Martin
• Lorraine Lee
• 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

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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 FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• OUR KIDS income £19.3m
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m
• E P YOUTH LTD income £159k
• As-Siraj Trust income £807k

Side by side with its peers

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