YOUNG LIFE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1090515 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YL, YL INTERNATIONAL · also registered in Scotland as SC043473 (OSCR)

Helping young people improve their life conditions and provide support to develop their skills for personal maturity. The relief of those in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual need, communicating Christian values and encouraging the Christian faith amongst young people.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('THE OBJECTS') ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PROMOTION OF AN EVANGELISTIC CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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Registered contact address: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £180,650 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total net assets of £544,260. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £410,174, which is below the stated policy target range of £477,000 to £954,000. The trustees consider the reserves level to be prudent despite being below the target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Brownlee (Chichester) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

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

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04364093

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Young Life International (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCCORMICK, Lucinda Claire — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
• BACKLER, Edwin Andrew — director, appointed 26/09/2022on trustee list
• JOHNSTON, Brooke — director, appointed 18/05/2020on trustee list
• WOODMAN, Paul — director, appointed 06/09/2018on trustee list
• MCCORMICK, Liam Ross — director, appointed 01/02/2014on trustee list
• SHERRILL, Paul — director, appointed 24/10/2005on trustee list
• SUTTON, Benedict William — secretary, appointed 01/06/2017

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL WOODMANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brooke Johnston
• Edwin Backler
• Liam McCormick
• Lucinda McCormick
• PAUL SHERRILL

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

Operates in: Bulgaria · Ethiopia · Kenya · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• THE YOUNG LIVES FOUNDATION income £984k
• YOUTH CONCERN income £879k
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• YOUNG GENERATION income £35k
• THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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