YOUTH FOCUS NORTH WEST LTD

Registered charity 1125563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH WEST REGIONAL YOUTH WORK UNIT

TO PROMOTE AND REPRESENT YOUTH WORK ACROSS THE REGION.TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICES WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO AND IMPACT ON NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENDAS.TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND CONSISTENCY OF YOUTH WORK ACROSS THE REGION BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING GOOD PRACTICE AND EFFECTIVE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS ) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND SO THAT SAID YOUNG PEOPLE MAY DEVELOP THEIR PERSONAL, SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES, ACHIEVE THEIR POTENTIAL AND FIND THEIR PLACE AS ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY AS A WHOLE.

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £49,489, resulting in net assets decreasing from £517,940 to £468,451. Despite this deficit, the trustees report the charity remains in a strong financial position, with actual reserves significantly exceeding the policy target. The charity holds no financial investments other than cash and maintains approximately three months' expenditure in its main current account.

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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Higgins
• Dr Carol Ewing
• James Cooke
• Jess Leigh
• Maisha Lorgat
• Sami Gichki · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tim Rumley

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £805k
• NE YOUTH income £1.3m
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH AGENCY income £5.4m
• YASEEN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LTD income £578k
• THE PHOENIX DETACHED YOUTH PROJECT income £249k
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k

Side by side with its peers

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