REACHOUT YOUTH

Registered charity 1096492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REACHOUT

We are a mentoring charity working with children in deprived communities to help them grow in competence and character. We improve self-confidence and develop numeracy, literacy, communication and memory skills, whilst reinforcing our core values of fairness, self-control, good judgement and staying power. We do this through 1 to 1 mentoring with positive role models and team activities.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £42,021 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in free reserves of £118,364. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is below the charity's stated policy target range of £228,000 to £455,964, providing only 1.6 months of operating costs. The trustees have implemented expenditure efficiencies and plan to increase unrestricted reserves to return within the policy range.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Aegis London — “We’d like to say a huge thank you to our amazing corporate partners: Aegis London” (source page)
• Dale Underwriting Partners — “"Dale Underwriting Partners is proud to support the vital work of ReachOut and to enable our colleagues to give their time to support young …” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 39.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor SIMON HEPBURNchair
• Deepa Mistry
• Dipti Shah
• Emma May Mills Jones
• James Browne
• NIGEL PAUL TERRINGTON
• Richard Norman
• Simon Millard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sophie Louise Elmer Wakelin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tom Edmonds

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

Operates in: Camden · Hackney · Haringey · Islington · Lambeth · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Oldham · Tower Hamlets · Wandsworth

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 REACH UP YOUTH.

• REACH UP YOUTH income £236k
• REACH VOLUNTEERING income £489k
• YOUTH ADVENTURE TRUST income £1.0m
• NOTTINGHAM ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICE income £755k
• REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY (ROC) income £105k
• URBAN OUTREACH (BOLTON) income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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