YMCA TRINITY GROUP

Registered charity 1069810 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBRIDGE YMCA, YMCA CAMBRIDGESHIRE & PETERBOROUGH

The YMCA works to enable young people to grow to their full potential by participating in a supportive and inclusive community through its housing, youth work, health and fitness and other programmes.The main group who benefit are those in the age range 8 to 28 through a variety ofprogrammes from short duration specialist interventions to supported housing offered over a number of years.

Objects

(THE ASSOCIATION IS A FEDERATED MEMBER OF THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS CHRISTIAN VALUES AND ITS CORPORATE VALUES OF BELIEF IN POTENTIAL, INTEGRITY, A HOLISTIC APPROACH AND RESPECT THE ASSOCIATION EXISTS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO PERSONS OF ALL RELIGIONS AND OF NONE, AND ACCORDINGLY THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE:2.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; 2.2 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SOCIALLY EXCLUDED TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. (FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS PERSONS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY OR PARTS OF SOCIETY BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES);2.3 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;2.4 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION FOR PERSONS OF ALL AGES WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES;2.5 TO RELIEVE OR ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; AND2.6 TO PROVIDE IMPROVE AND MANAGE HOUSES AND HOSTELS, FLATS AND RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £358,028 for the year, with total income of £12,535,269 against total operating costs of £12,177,241. The trustees report that the group has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern, although it provides financial support to its trading subsidiary, The Cresset Limited, while a turnaround plan is implemented. Free reserves are managed to meet working capital requirements, with the charity calculating a need for at least £500,000 in reserves to support operational activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Lowestoft: YMCA Trinity Group offers free hot meals for those in need lowestoftjournal.co.uk · 18/01/2023
• YMCA Trinity Group in Ipswich wins award for diversity ipswichstar.co.uk · 10/11/2021

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YMCA Trinity Group (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (14 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy John Sealchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ann Radmore
• Barbara Mills
• Chen Sun
• Christine Wilkinson
• Dr Kavita Tiwari
• Maria Mackay
• Nicola Dansua Robinson
• Philip Edward Oakes
• REVANTHA SINNETAMBY
• Simon Pickering
• Sini Rinne-Kerridge
• Yulia Pasiuk

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF EXETER YMCA.

• CITY OF EXETER YMCA income £2.3m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YMCA income £534k
• YMCA BRUNEL GROUP income £10.6m
• YMCA Chiltern Group income £31.0m
• YMCA ESSEX income £2.1m
• HALTON YMCA LIMITED income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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