SMETHWICK YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1090529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S.Y.C.C.

General Charitable PurposesEducation/TrainingMedical/Health/SicknessDisabilityRelief of PovertyArts/cultureSport/recreationEnvironment/Conservation/HeritageEconomic/Community development/Employment

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND IN PARTICULAR THE AREA OF SMETHWICK AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICT (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT') WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATION IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.2) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE CENTRE) AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME, WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.3) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED

Area of benefit: THE BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND IN PARTICULAR THE AREA OF SMETHWICK AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £34,152 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £407,719. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of six months' running costs, and the current reserve level appears sufficient to meet this target. However, the accounts note that specific designated funds, including the building works and nursery funds, are in deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kuldeep Singh Deolchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BALBIR SINGH BHAJAM BSC
• BHERVINDER SINGH · trustee of 1 other charity
• GURPAL SINGH
• Harjinder Malhi
• Jagjevan Singh Samra
• PARBINDER KAUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarbjit Singh

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).