SOUTH SHROPSHIRE YOUTH FORUM

Registered charity 1068321 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

South Shropshire Youth Forum is a charity set up to help the young people in South Shropshire. SSYF aims to support young people through the transition to adulthood. It offers a variety of projects, activities and themes that are delivered to help address and support the needs of young people within the district.

Objects

TO ASSIST AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOUTH SHROPSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (THE AREA OF BENEFIT), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING, AN INFORMATION AND ADVICE CENTRE AND OTHER SUCH SERVICES CALCULATED TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITIES IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: SOUTH SHROPSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that for the financial year ending 2025-03-31, the charity reported income of £50,689 and expenditure of £57,815, resulting in a deficit. The Chair's report notes that funding remains a challenge, though the charity continues to deliver services through a small team of permanent, part-time, and sessional staff.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03476766

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Shropshire Youth Forum (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.

• GRIFFITHS, Sarah Rose — director, appointed 29/11/2025on trustee list
• MORRIS, Peter David — director, appointed 28/11/2025on trustee list
• WEBB, Amy — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• BLUETT, Robert — director, appointed 02/12/2020on trustee list
• FURNISS, Mandy — director, appointed 02/10/2016not on trustee list
• MORLEY, Richard David — secretary, appointed 20/02/2006

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA FURNISS
• Amy Webb
• Peter David Morris
• Robert Anthony Bluett
• Sarah Griffiths

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

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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