ABINGDON DAMASCUS YOUTH PROJECT

Registered charity 1098966 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Detached Youth work One-to-one and issue-based work; study, job and emotional supportTraining young leaders in the communityLiaise with other youth, voluntary and statutory organisations to enhance/grow the youth provision in the areas of benefit as identified by the young people themselves - youth clubsInter-generational communal fun activities (such as senior citizens' tea party)

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERSONAL, SOCIAL & EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF ALL YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGE OF 11 TO 25 YEARS WHO LIVE IN THE AREA ENCOMPASSED BY VALE OF WHITE HORSE AND SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCILS AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED BY ADVERSE SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

Area of benefit: THE AREA ENCOMPASSED BY VALE OF WHITE HORSE AND SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCILS

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds held at the period end were £163,210, with £90,000 designated as earmarked reserves. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to ensure stability for staff employment and bridge gaps between grant awards. The document notes that financial risk for the year was minimal.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• #iwill — “Youth Social Action (part funded by #iwill through Sovereign)” (source page)
• Sovereign — “Youth Social Action (part funded by #iwill through Sovereign)” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER DAVID BRYANchair
• Elaine Mary Wade
• Jack Matthews
• James Matthew Carter
• Jay Elliott
• Julie Laws
• Paul James Peter McCarthy
• Sally Ailsa Louise Hoodless

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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