RAMPWORX YOUTH VILLAGE 2000

Registered charity 1097748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAMPWORX

Rampworx provides facilities for over 1300 disadvantaged young people per week who partake in Inline skating, BMX, Skateboarding and Scootering. Also provide a range of personal development projects, such as drug and alcohol awareness, sexual health, healthy eating, music, IT, street dance, coaching sessions and free summer sports clinics.

Objects

(I) TO PROVIDE AND CO-ORDINATE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURETIME OCCUPATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN MERSEYSIDE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTHFULNESS, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY(II) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMPANY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER CAN BE APPROPRIATELY CARRIED ON IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON PURSUANT TO THE FIRST OBJECT MENTIONED ABOVE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small net surplus of £3,055 for the year, with total incoming resources of £540,183 against outgoing resources of £537,128. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains adequate resources for the foreseeable future and has unrestricted funds totaling £46,051. The organization operates a trading subsidiary, Rampworx Sales Limited, which contributed significantly to the group's income through shop sales.

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 4 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (92% 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: 72.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Michael Smith
• Lynne Bishop
• Rhian Louise Hunt
• Tyrone Allan Leyland

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

Operates in: Sefton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADRENALINE ALLEY.

• ADRENALINE ALLEY income £1.5m
• WEYMOUTH SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION income £120k
• THE SHELFORD AND STAPLEFORD YOUTH INITIATIVE income £177k
• All About Youth income £1.7m
• YOUTH WORKS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £1.6m
• EXODUS YOUTH WORX UK income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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