YMCA EAST SURREY

Registered charity 1075028 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REIGATE & REDHILL YMCA

YMCA East Surrey is a vibrant, local charity that has been responding to the needs of individuals and communities since 1871. We help people to believe in themselves, support them to achieve their goals and inspire them to be the best they can be. Services and activities include; supported housing, sports, health and well-being, childcare, youth work and youth counselling.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£10.0m
Latest spending
£8.4m
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £438,270 and total reserves of £8,956,881, with unrestricted free reserves of £2,301,252 exceeding the Board's target of £1.6m. Per the trustees' report, the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with cash balances of £2,942,483 and a low reliance on external finance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YMCA East Surrey (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £3.5m. 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)

Total income
£10.0m
Total spending
£8.4m
Cost of raising funds
£200k
Reserves (reported)
£3.4m
Employees
260

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£10.0m£8.4m
31/03/2024£6.7m£6.4m
31/03/2023£6.0m£5.6m
31/03/2022£5.2m£4.8m
31/03/2021£4.2m£3.8m

Common questions

Is YMCA EAST SURREY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £438,270 and total reserves of £8,956,881, with unrestricted free reserves of £2,301,252 exceeding the Board's target of £1.6m. Per the trustees' report, the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with cash balances of £2,942,483 and a low reliance on external finance. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe UK LLP.

Who funds YMCA EAST SURREY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YMCA EAST SURREY as a grant recipient include THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC, THE C P CHARITABLE TRUST, THE THREE GUINEAS TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITEDFY2023£70kPoverty
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATIONFY2022£46ktowards the cost of employing a Disability Sport Co-ordinator
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSICFY2024£30k
THE C P CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£15kFunding to support the essential work of YMCA East Surrey with disadvantaged young adults.
THE C P CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£15kDonations to support this remarkable centre caring for disabled children in northern Ukraine.
THE C P CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£10kDonation to help finance their work supporting local state sector schools.
THE THREE GUINEAS TRUSTFY2024£10kSummer activity programmes for autistic children and their siblings.
THE THREE GUINEAS TRUSTFY2022£9kSummer activity programmes for children with autism
THE THREE GUINEAS TRUSTFY2023£8kSummer activity programmes with autism
THE THREE GUINEAS TRUSTFY2025£7kHoliday activity schemes for autistic children and their siblings (Projects run in 2024)
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUSTFY2023£5k
THE C P CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£5kFunding to support the essential work of YMCA East Surrey with disadvantaged young adults.
GATWICK AIRPORT COMMUNITY TRUSTFY2021£3k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023£2k
THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2024£2k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£1k
MOORE KINGSTON SMITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2022£350Charitable activities

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund15/01/2026£20kNextStep for Young People
The National Lottery Community Fund11/04/2024£498kYouth Connect
The National Lottery Community Fund09/02/2024£20kInclusive Sport
UK government14/08/2023£399kAffordable Housing Grant
The National Lottery Community Fund08/10/2021£10kFace2Face
Sport England28/01/2021£8kCOVID19 Return to Play
The National Lottery Community Fund27/01/2021£436kGetting Connected Reigate and Banstead
Sport England25/06/2020£4kToyota Parasport Fund - Equipment for Disability Sports
The National Lottery Community Fund11/06/2020£95kGetting Restarted
The National Lottery Community Fund03/10/2019£9kEast Surrey Walking for Health
Sport England25/01/2019£25kRemodel & Extension of Sports & Community Centre
Sport England10/04/2018£50kRemodel & Extension of Sports & Community Centre
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2016£7kLead ability
The National Lottery Community Fund19/09/2012£174kSovereign Centre Disability Hub
The National Lottery Community Fund01/02/2012£6kHillbrook House
The National Lottery Community Fund27/08/2009£10kYippee Project Play
The National Lottery Community Fund21/12/2006£5kChildren's Services
The National Lottery Community Fund22/11/2005£5kOutside play area

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 LONDON CITY AND NORTH.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
YMCA EAST SURREY£10.0m——above—no doubt
YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH FY2025£9.5m£103,490—below—no doubt
READING YMCA FY2025£1.1m—0above—no doubt
YMCA ST HELENS FY2025£4.5m——unclear—no doubt
YMCA NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LTD. FY2025£6.3m——unclear—no doubt
YMCA SOUTH DEVON FY2025£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt

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