SOMALI YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1092646 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Somali Youth Development Resource Centre is working with Somali young people and their families in the London Borough of Camden to help them achieve their full potintial.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SOMALI YOUTH IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN AND NEIGHBOURING AREAS AND TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR THEIR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATIONS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds limited unrestricted reserves, with a total fund balance of £424,073 at the end of the financial year. The trustees have set a target to build unrestricted reserves equivalent to at least six months of operating expenditure to address ongoing financial pressures. The charity received incoming resources of £646,173 and expended £609,887, resulting in a net increase in resources for the year.

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.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohamed Abdi Arifchair
• Dr Said Isse
• Hanif Mohamoud
• Luul Jama
• MUBARK DEEROW
• SUBER ABDIKARIM

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ISLINGTON SOMALI COMMUNITY.

• ISLINGTON SOMALI COMMUNITY income £147k
• EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP income £496k
• THE SHALOM YOUTH PROJECT income £116k
• SOLENT YOUTH ACTION income £94k
• BRISTOL SOMALI RESOURCE CENTRE (BSRC) income £400k
• LAMBETH SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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