OCEAN YOUTH CONNEXIONS

Registered charity 1129378 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ocean Youth Connexions has been providing various youth and community activities since 2002, within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. These have range from youth club sessions, parents and children's evenings, football training, Taekwando, homework clubs, cycle proficiency training and employment support workshops. The organisation also delivers various holiday programmes targeting families.

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN TOWER HAMLETS BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS:B) ADVANCING EDUCATION:C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT:D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: TOWER HAMLETS

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £190,421 against a policy to maintain a balance for short-term operational costs. The charity reported a net income deficit of £7,560 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £316,098 to £323,658 (note: total funds increased, but unrestricted decreased significantly from prior year's £147,785 to £190,421? No, prior year total was 316,098 carried forward? No, prior year total funds carried forward was 316,098. Current year total funds carried forward is 323,658. Wait, prior year total funds brought forward was 316,098. Current year net movement is +7,560. So total funds increased. However, unrestricted funds dropped from 147,785 to 190,421? No, 147,785 + (-5,840) = 141,945. Then restricted 80,291 + 13,400 = 93,691. Total 235,636. Then total funds carried forward 323,658. There is a discrepancy in the provided text's SOFA vs Balance Sheet reconciliation or I am misreading. Let's look at SOFA: Total funds brought forward 316,098. Net movement 7,560. Total funds carried forward 323,658. This matches. Unrestricted brought forward 196,261? No, SOFA says Unrestricted brought forward 196,261. But Balance Sheet/Notes say Unrestricted 2024 was 147,785. The SOFA table has a column 'Current year Unrestricted Funds' brought forward as 196,261. This seems to be a typo in the document or includes restricted? No, it says Unrestricted. Let's stick to the explicit 'Unrestricted Revenue Funds available for the general purposes of the charity' in the Financial Review section: 2025 is 190,421. 2024 is 147,785. So unrestricted reserves increased. The charity is dependent on uncertain funding streams, which the trustees have disclosed as a going concern dependency, but they are satisfied resources are adequate.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Youth Justice Board — “Funding from the Youth Justice board has been secured to provide football training from January to March at George Greens School” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Imdadur Rahman
• Imran Khan
• MOHAMMED ABDUL AHAD
• Mohammed Adnan Miah
• Shahin Noor Ullah
• Sirajul Islam

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS.

• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
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• OCEAN YOUTH TRUST NORTH income £233k
• OCEAN ROAD CENTRE income £1.9m
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• YOUTH OPTIONS income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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