YOUNG PEOPLE TAKING ACTION

Registered charity 1102645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CYDS

Young People Taking Action provides information, support and a safe place to be to young people aged 8-29 in the Suffolk Coastal area. We aim to help young people reach their full potential and to improve the conditions of life for young persons who have need of such a service due to social or economical circumstances.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUFFOLK (THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE YOUNG PERSONS UP TO 21 YEARS OF AGE BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, OTHER STATUTORY BODIES, VOLUNTARY BODIES AND OTHER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH, TO RELIEVE THOSE WHOA RE SUFFERING FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED AND TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND OF HELPING THE YOUNG PERSONS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETYY

Area of benefit: SUFFOLK

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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Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £38,902 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £213,686 against expenditure of £174,784. The trustees consider the year-end financial position to be satisfactory, noting that free reserves of £39,551 are sufficient to meet day-to-day operating requirements for a period of three months. The charity is actively seeking funding for its ongoing work to ensure longer-term sustainability.

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 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 07/11/2024, 130 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 13/07/2023, 13 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jack Fairweatherchair
• Abbie-Rose Reardon
• RONALD HOSTLER
• Rebekah Williams

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH ACTION.

• YOUTH ACTION income £531k
• YOUTH ACTION ALLIANCE income £667k
• YOUNG PERSONS CENTRE income £525k
• START YOUNG UK income £46k
• YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME income £640k
• YOUNG PEOPLE COUNT income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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