BACKUP NORTH WEST

Registered charity 1064698 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON YOUNG PERSONS HOUSING SCHEME

To provide supported housing and emergency over night accommodation to single homeless 16-25 year olds. The aim of the service is to prevent homelessness, reduce risk of harm through rough sleeping and enable independent living.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY AMONGST THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOLTON AREA, AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE SINGLE YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT SETTLED HOUSING ACCOMMODATION (THE CLIENT GROUP) WITH SHORT TERM ACCOMMODATION AND TO HELP EDUCATE AND COUNSEL SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR PARTNERS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS WHO MAY ALSO BE AFFECTED BY THESE CONDITIONS; AND2.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PREVENTION AND EFFECTS OF HIV AND AIDS

Area of benefit: BOLTON

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £180,886, increasing its total reserves to £871,817. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, noting no material uncertainties exist.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Barlow Andrews LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BACKUP North West (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dawn Yates-Obé — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Paulette Campbell — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Jennie Hockey — Director of Business (source)
• Laura Pendlebury — Director of Income and Partnerships (source)

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.

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): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Gail Hounsleachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephen Howard Sharples
• Joan Wyatt
• Kevin Charles Monk
• LISA TULIP
• Maggie Bruce
• Paul Justin Pritchard
• Tracy Amanda Boylin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RENEWAL NORTH WEST.

• RENEWAL NORTH WEST income £1.4m
• NIGHTSAFE LIMITED income £1.3m
• OPEN HOMES NOTTINGHAM income £149k
• HATZOLA NORTHWEST TRUST income £963k
• NORTHWAY DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £252k
• NORTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION FOR ACCOMMODATION FOR SINGLE HOMELESS income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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