MAMA YOUTH PROJECT

Registered charity 1119238 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MAMA Youth Project aims to equip disadvantaged and marginalised young people between the age of 18-30 with the skills & experience that will help them secure long-term and fulfilling employment.We provide training that helps them secure employment,with a particular focus on those wanting to pursue a career in TV or media-an industry particularly closed to those from BAME& disadvantaged backgrounds

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BLACK AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY BACKGROUNDS) AND/OR WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "DISADVANTAGED YOUTH", BY:-A) PROVIDING TRAINING FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IN THE ART OF AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO TELEVISION PRODUCTION) AND ANCILLARY MATTERS;B) PRODUCING AND STAGING SHOWS, EVENTS AND OTHER PRODUCTIONS WHICH ARE AIMED AT EDUCATING DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IN CONNECTION WITH PRACTICAL ISSUES WHICH ARE OF RELEVANCE TO THEM, AND PRODUCING ANCILLARY MATERIALS; ANDC) SPONSORING DISADVANTAGED YOUTH TO HELP THEM GAIN GREATER INVOLVEMENT IN AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION AND SPONSORING EVENTS WHICH THE COMPANY THINKS WILL HELP DISADVANTAGED YOUTH GAIN SUCH GREATER INVOLVEMENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £261,558 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £nil from £341,303 the previous year. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with stable cash positions and partnership contracts in place, despite the deficit arising from reduced funding. The reserves policy targets three months of operating expenditure, a target the charity is currently below and aims to rebuild through a recovery plan.

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 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06033670

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

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.

• OLUNLOYO, Ayobami Akinyode — director, appointed 30/05/2024on trustee list
• POPE, Scott Elliot — director, appointed 18/02/2024on trustee list
• YEW, Mei Leng — director, appointed 08/11/2023on trustee list
• AFZAL, Safira Nazli — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• FERNER-ROBSON, Tallulah Inger Mary — secretary, appointed 10/10/2024

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (51% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Safira Nazli Afzalchair
• Ayobami Akinyode OLUNLOYO · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mei Leng Yew
• Scott Elliott Pope
• Tallulah Inger Mary Ferner-Robson

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• MANCHESTER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT CLUB income £95k
• THE MAXIMUM LIFE YOUTH PROJECT income £60k
• AMBLE YOUTH PROJECT LIMITED income £78k
• YMM income £116k
• YOUTH ACTION income £531k
• VISION25 income £942k

Side by side with its peers

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