CHELTENHAM YMCA
Registered charity 1079951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELTENHAM YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Cheltenham YMCA is a Christian Charity, working to make a positive difference in the community. The main focus is young people but the YMCA also provides services and facilities for the wider community. Accommodation for 200 people, a fitness programme and affordable community sports facilities and youth work are examples of current work.
Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus for the year of £272,443 and holds unrestricted general reserves of £1,352,830, which exceed the stated policy target of approximately £675,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Highest-paid employee band: more than £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The CEO is the highest paid officer, and the only officer paid at more than £60,000 per annum.” — page 39
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“The CEO is the highest paid officer, and the only officer paid at more than £60,000 per annum.” — page 39
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months of the next year's anticipated expenditure (held: £1.4m)
“The Board’s policy has been reviewed and the Board has decided that the reserves should be equivalent to 6 months of the next year’s anticipated expenditure. At anticipated levels of activity this is equivalent to a level of general reserves of approximately £675,000.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Pension scheme deficit: £9.1m
“The valuation prepared as at 1 May 2023 showed that the YMCA Pension Plan had a deficit of £9.1 million.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cheltenham YMCA (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Joseph Main — Chief Executive 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.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 freehold); recorded price paid £5.6m. 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 · linkedin
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£894
Reported reserves equal ~16.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (14/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (25/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- BENJAMIN ANTHONY SPENCER REEDchair
- ANDREW DENNIS PONTING
- Felicity Lacey
- MICHAEL DENZIL EDE
- Maralyn Ann Reynolds
- PETER ROBERT WORSLEY
- STEPHEN ANDREW JORDAN
- Sarah Catherine Provan
- Stella Jane Hedley
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Gloucestershire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CHELTENHAM YMCA financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus for the year of £272,443 and holds unrestricted general reserves of £1,352,830, which exceed the stated policy target of approximately £675,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hazlewoods LLP.
What does the highest-paid employee of CHELTENHAM YMCA earn?
Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the more than £60,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.
Who funds CHELTENHAM YMCA?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CHELTENHAM YMCA as a grant recipient include COUNTY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES, LECKHAMPTON WITH ST CHRISTOPHER'S, WARDEN HILL, THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.
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 WORCESTER YMCA.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.