ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST

Registered charity 1087163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing a counselling service to young people up to the age of 25.Providing a counselling service for Under 13s.Providing a welfare service at local events (utilising volunteers).

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £18,595 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,343,453 and expenditure of £1,324,858. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £532,000 at the end of the year, which the trustees consider sufficient to demonstrate financial management and resilience against income volatility.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jo Dare — CEO (source)
• Kay Boycott — Chair of Trustees (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £248k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Pleszak
• Helen Farrant
• Kay Boycott
• Mark Dix
• Michael Shepherd
• Nigel Hartley
• Peter Elliott
• Rosalyn Julia Parker
• Sarah Redrup
• Tom Flower
• Victoria Sitch

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH FOR CHRIST.

• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £127k
• ISLE OF WIGHT SCOUT COUNCIL income £230k
• ISLE OF WIGHT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £712k
• The Enfield Island Youth & Community Trust income £394k
• AGE CONCERN ISLE OF WIGHT income £1.3m
• YOUTH ENQUIRY SERVICE (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED income £583k

Side by side with its peers

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