THE ROCK-CURROCK YOUTH PROJECT

Registered charity 1119397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Rock Youth Project delivers free, inclusive youth clubs five days a week in Carlisle for ages 7 and over. Based in Currock, we provide safe, trusted spaces in an area of high deprivation. Young people can access food, mentoring, build skills, confidence & aspirations, access sport activities and build community connections. Importantly the rock is a place for young people to be themselves.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND THUS WITH THE AIM OF REDUCING ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND YOUTH DISORDER; AND(B) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. CURROCK

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total reserves of £323,215, with unrestricted reserves at £311,213, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining three months' expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, and the trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05819388

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Rock Youth Project (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.

• DOCKERAY, Simon James — director, appointed 28/11/2023not on trustee list
• TOD, Gillian — director, appointed 27/11/2023not on trustee list
• WILLS, Christopher Alan — director, appointed 10/12/2021on trustee list
• BROWN, Pamela Mary — director, appointed 19/11/2021on trustee list
• PIERCY, Christopher — director, appointed 31/07/2020on trustee list
• WANNOP, Julie Christine — director, appointed 10/01/2018on trustee list
• WALBY, Michael James — secretary, appointed 15/12/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Julie Wannopchair
• Christopher Alan Wills · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Piercy
• Gill Tod
• Pamela Mary Brown

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE income £1.2m
• TYC (THIRSK YOUTH CLUB) income £73k
• KIRKLEES SUMMER PLAYSCHEME CAMP income £62k
• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• @ THE ROCK income £331k
• THE ROCK CHURCH income £270k

Side by side with its peers

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