UK YOUTH

Registered charity 1110590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

UK Youth is committed to ensuring all young people are empowered to build bright futures, regardless of their background or circumstances. Our mission is to provide all young people with access to appropriate, high quality services in their local community or online. Together with our network, we offer support, advice and training to equip young people with vital life skills.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 14.9% to £13.8 million, primarily due to the timing of restricted income recognition, while expenditure rose to £17.9 million, resulting in a timing deficit funded from restricted reserves. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves were maintained at £1.23 million, which is slightly above the stated policy target range of £1.1 million to £1.3 million, indicating the charity remains within its financial stability targets despite the underlying operating deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: YOUTH WORK (UK) LIMITED Companies House 02528359
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05402004

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rosie Ferguson OBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• David Watts — Director of Outdoor Learning (source)
• Vicky Chenery — Director of Fundraising (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Burger King — “Together with Burger King , UK Youth is tackling digital inequality by equipping youth organisations with the funding, tools, and expertise …” (source page)
• Coca-Cola Europacific Partners — “UK Youth is proud to partner with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) in a long-standing relationship built on shared values, open dialogu…” (source page)
• nexfibre — “We’re proud to be working with nexfibre in a bold, unrestricted partnership focused on closing the digital divide for young people. Over the…” (source page)
• Primark — “To celebrate its 50th anniversary in the UK, Primark has launched a bold new partnership with UK Youth—its first ever centralised approach t…” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund provides UK Youth with a core grant that strengthens our ability to support and champion our national ne…” (source page)
• The Reed Foundation — “UK Youth is the proud recipient of £1 million Sir Alec Reed Prize , awarded by The Reed Foundation to support 16-24-year-olds facing poor me…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JONES, Colin Robert — director, appointed 12/03/2026on trustee list
• ORJI, Nneka Stella — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• HOPE, Anna — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• LASOTA, Jolanta — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• LLOYD-JONES, Jodie Lee — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• YATES, Jonathan — director, appointed 22/09/2022on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Gabrielle, Dr — director, appointed 22/09/2022not on trustee list
• PRICE, Matthew John — director, appointed 07/12/2016on trustee list
• MCDOUGALL, Iain Rodney — director, appointed 07/12/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 9.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew John Pricechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anna Hope
• Colin Robert Jones
• Dr Gabrielle Anne-Marie Mathews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Iain Rodney McDougall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jodie Lloyd-Jones
• Jolanta Lasota
• Jonathan Yates
• Nneka Orji · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k
• YOUTH FEDERATION LIMITED income £2.1m
• YOUTH WITH A MISSION HARPENDEN income £2.1m
• YOUTH PWR CHARITY income £304k
• INDIA YOUTH FUND UK income £487k
• YOUNG SOMERSET income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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