CUMBRIA YOUTH ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1079508 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a range of needs led training and development opportunities for young people aged 13 - 25 to ensure they reach their full potentialProvision of support opportunities for organisations working with children and young peopleDevelopment of new and innovative projects for young people to meet identified needsStrategic representation for the sector

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £3,376,699, with unrestricted liquid assets totaling £476,668. The trustees' report indicates that unrestricted liquid assets exceed the stated reserves policy target of £191,000, which is calculated as six months of core costs plus redundancy liabilities. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dodd & Co Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to more than £60,000 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cumbria Youth Alliance (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Becky Wolstenholme — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sophie Birkett — Chief Operating Officer (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Francis C Scott Charitable Trust — “During subsequent conversations with lead workers and CEO. I came to understand just how successful this programme was with 40 of 42 partici…” (source page)
• Mitie - Sellafield — “Mitie Security is thrilled and excited to join Cumbria Youth Alliance as a partner and supporter. Having seen the great things the organisat…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (95% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Libbychair
• Christopher Downham
• Kerry Hyslop · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louis Thomas Rees Twentyman
• Samuel Birkitt
• YVONNE CAROL LAMBERT

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

Operates in: Cumbria

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 COPENHAGEN YOUTH PROJECT.

• COPENHAGEN YOUTH PROJECT income £384k
• POSITIVE YOUTH FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• YOUTH OPTIONS income £3.8m
• COLNE YOUTH ACTION GROUP income £215k
• All About Youth income £1.7m
• E P YOUTH LTD income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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