YOUTHSCAPE

Registered charity 1081754 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LCET, LUTON CHURCHES EDUCATION TRUST, THE LUTON CHURCHES EDUCATION TRUST

Youthscape works for real change in the lives of teenagers who we meet in schools, churches and the community within Luton. We value research and innovation as we seek to understand culture, develop new resources and models of youth work and refine established approaches. Nationally, we equip youth workers as we run events, training and consultancy and provide innovative resources.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £60,728 for the year, with total income of £2,137,239 and total expenditure of £2,076,511. Unrestricted reserves increased to £168,951, while the trustees aim to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level of 4-6 months of expenditure to ensure financial stability. The charity holds significant restricted funds (£2,583,286) primarily tied to property assets, indicating a strong asset base but with liquidity concentrated in unrestricted funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Higginson & Co (UK) Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YOUTHSCAPE (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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

• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matt Summerfield Revchair
• Jeronne Rudder
• Rachel Herbert
• Rev Chris Russell
• Revd Canon TIMOTHY MICHAEL LOMAX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tolulope George

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with All About Youth.

• All About Youth income £1.7m
• LUX Youth Project income £187k
• SKAPED income £144k
• YOUTH WORKS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £1.6m
• E P YOUTH LTD income £159k
• YOUTH TALK LIMITED income £577k

Side by side with its peers

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