THE ISLAND N1

Registered charity 1120420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Island provides a mentoring service to vulnerable 8 - 18 year-olds in York. Volunteer mentors meet weekly with their mentees (children and young people) to pursue a range of positive activities on a one-to-one basis.

Objects

The advancement of the education of vulnerable children, young people and families, who live in Yorkshire, in particular, but not exclusively by providing mentoring support that helps people reach their full potential and avoid being socially excluded.The relief of those in need by reason of their youth, age, disability, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances through the provision of recreational, respite and leisure time activities in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life.

Area of benefit: YORK

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £824,757 for the year, primarily driven by an £816,663 impairment of freehold land. Unrestricted reserves fell to £302,847, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate despite the impairment and a strategic review of the charity's development project.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Henton & Co LLP. 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Island N1 (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laurence John Beardmorechair
• Elly Fiorentini
• James Bishop
• Lee Vincent
• Paul Devlin
• Robert Neil Purrington

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

Operates in: City Of York

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 MENTORING PLUS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET.

• MENTORING PLUS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET income £770k
• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST income £1.3m
• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £127k
• YOURSTORY LTD income £247k
• TEEN CRISIS UK income £119k
• TRAILBLAZERS MENTORING LTD income £499k

Side by side with its peers

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