ONSIDE YOUTH ZONES

Registered charity 1125893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ONSIDE NORTH WEST LIMITED

OnSide is a charity which supports the wellbeing, aspirations and life chances of young people. By creating a UK-wide network of high-quality youth facilities we are providing young people with inspiring and safe places to spend their leisure time. Our aim is to reach every UK town or city where there is a need, working in partnership with the public and private sector and local community.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,446,798, which the Trustees consider to be in compliance with their policy target of 3-6 months of operating costs. The charity reports a net income of £1,014,384 for the year, driven by a significant increase in total incoming resources to £20,835,433, while maintaining a positive cash position of £5,623,378.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06591785

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jamie Masraff — CEO (source)
• Anabel Hoult — Chair of the Trustees Board (source)
• Bill Holroyd — Founder (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation — “Catherine Ind is the Head of St. James’s Place (SJP) Charitable Foundation. The Foundation is a longstanding supporter of OnSide, having gen…” (source page)
• The Anne Duchess of Westminster’s Charity — “I first became involved with The Dome through my long-standing work with the Anne Duchess of Westminster’s Charity,which closed in 2021 and …” (source page)

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.

• MYERS LUSTY, George Alexander — director, appointed 21/10/2025not on trustee list
• MCNICHOLL, David Colm — director, appointed 25/07/2025on trustee list
• WHITTINGHAM, Claire, Dr — director, appointed 24/04/2025on trustee list
• JACKSON, Sally — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• BUWE, Abubakar Mohamed — director, appointed 11/07/2023on trustee list
• JACKSON, Michael Thomas — director, appointed 27/04/2020on trustee list
• HOULT, Anabel Kate — director, appointed 27/04/2020on trustee list
• HOLROYD, Charles William — director, appointed 13/05/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,356 followers) · instagram (3,959 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abubakar Mohamed Buwe
• Anabel Kate Hoult
• BILL HOLROYD · trustee of 2 other charities
• David McNicholl
• Dr Claire Whittingham
• George Alexander Myers Lusty
• Michael Thomas Jackson
• Rebecca Morrison
• Sally Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MR BILL HOLROYD — trustee here and at THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION income £4.0m
• OURSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £109k
• THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m
• AlongSide income £1.2m
• MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m
• UK YOUTH income £13.8m

Side by side with its peers

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