YMCA BRUNEL GROUP

Registered charity 1074660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MENDIP YMCA, MENDIP YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

Provide a wide range of activities and support for young people and the community. With a focus on housing and homelessness and youth work to enabling all to belong, contribute and thrive. Providing floating support, supported housing, youth clubs and venues for community groups to access.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group recorded a surplus of £213,760 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves of £3,694,123. The trustees report that while free reserves are technically zero due to restricted fund classifications, the charity holds £1,035,454 in cash, which covers two months of salary costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit Co. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £90,000 - £95,000 (FY2025).

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

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Holy Trinity Church, Frome — “Corporate Sponsors Community Sponsors Holy Trinity Church, Frome” (source page)
• The Dawe Family Trust — “Corporate Sponsors Community Sponsors Holy Trinity Church, Frome The Dawe Family Trust” (source page)
• The Elizabeth and Prince Zaiger Trust — “Corporate Sponsors Community Sponsors Holy Trinity Church, Frome The Dawe Family Trust The Elizabeth and Prince Zaiger Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. 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 ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Pendlechair
• Anthony Cook
• Isabelle Selley
• Khyati Oldall
• Lindsay Atkin
• RICHARD TIDSWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Samuel Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Caddick

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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).

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 YMCA Chiltern Group.

• YMCA Chiltern Group income £31.0m
• YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH income £9.5m
• YMCA Dulverton Group income £15.8m
• READING YMCA income £1.1m
• BRONTE YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE income £1.9m
• NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Y.M.C.A. income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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