FOLKESTONE YOUTH PROJECT

Registered charity 1113379 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FOLKESTONE YOUTH PROJECT

The provision of social and recreational facilities to the young people of Folkestone for their leisure time activities, so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capabilities.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND, IN PARTICULAR, YOUNG PEOPLE IN FOLKESTONE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE FOLKESTONE, KENT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has secured multi-year funding from The National Lottery, providing financial security. The trustees are working towards securing a long-term lease from The Arch Company to ensure the project's sustainability. A personal injury insurance claim is being contested by the charity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAMIAN COLLINSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aaron Brann · trustee of 1 other charity
• James David Gunn
• Kevin Humphreys
• LYNNE SMITH · trustee of 2 other charities
• PETER GANE · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN WALLACE

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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