ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH FOR CHRIST

Registered charity 1078660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IWYFC

Isle of Wight Youth For Christ oversees several weekly evening youthclubs based around activity-based programs for 9-13 year olds, runs a number of weekly after-school discussion groups in various locations around the Island and a monthly Island-wide worship event for teenagers, and works in Middle and High schools taking lessons and assemblies.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS ENVIRONS.(B) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELISATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT AND ITS ENVIRONS.(C) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE POSITIVE CHRISTIAN LIVING.(D) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS THEREBY DEMONSTRATING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE IN PARTICULAR ISLE OF WIGHT

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated a deficit of £13,100 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds of £58,768. Per the trustees' report, this deficit was due to planned overspending to subsidize young people attending trips. The trustees consider the state of the charity's affairs to be satisfactory.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN CRAGOchair
• Andrew Gary Hughes
• CHRISTINE KANE
• Hugh Wells · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANE GRIFFITHS

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST.

• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST income £1.3m
• GRACE CHURCH ISLE OF WIGHT income £140k
• SOUTH WIGHT AREA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP income £691k
• BURTON YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £119k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SCOUT COUNCIL income £230k
• YOUTH FIRST CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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