HIDEAWAY YOUTH PROJECT LIMITED

Registered charity 1110880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIDEAWAY YOUTH PROJECT

The Hideaway aims to improve the conditions of life of children and young people in the Greater Manchester area by providing facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation; to help and educate children and young people so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals.

Objects

TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GREATER MANCHESTER AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, CULTURE, RACE, DISABILITY, RELIGION OR OF POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES. TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 YEARS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL. MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. TO RELIEVE THE EFFECTS OF DISTRESS CAUSED BY POVERTY ON YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT ON MATTERS RELATED TO THEIR HEALTH, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, TRAINING, WELL- BEING AND WELFARE. TO UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT AND APPROPRIATE.

Area of benefit: GREATER MANCHESTER AREA.

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £122,118 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £456,031 and expenditure of £333,913. Per the trustees' report, total funds at year-end were £267,810, and the trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 19/02/2026, 19 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Hideaway Youth Project (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).

• The National Lottery — “In Our Words is a three-year creative project, funded by The National Lottery, designed to bring young people and community members from Mos…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ZAHRA ALIJAHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr John Ivan Benett
• John Cotterill
• Kevin Daye
• Niall Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

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 SLIDE AWAY.

• SLIDE AWAY income £109k
• HALLIE'S HIDEAWAY income £77k
• CITY ESCAPE income £47k
• HUDDERSFIELD WHARFESIDE YOUTH TRUST income £37k
• RIDGEWAY PLAYGROUP LIMITED income £154k
• The Hidden income £208k

Side by side with its peers

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