STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES

Registered charity 1129957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support of voluntary and community organisations working with children, young people and families

Objects

I TO PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICE, EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ITS MEMBER ORGANISATIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE WEST MIDLANDS AND IN PARTICULAR, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF STAFFORDSHIRE AND THE EFFICIENT APPLICATION OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN AND YONG PEOPLE. THIS WILL BE DONE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUALITY, DISABILITY, RACE, POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OPINION.II TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND THEIR ORGANISATIONS SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES TO BECOME FULFILLED AND RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETYIII TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES, FACILITIES AND INFORMATION RELATING TO TRAINING, RECREATION, HEALTH AND INDEPENDENT LIVINGIV TO ENABLE EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AT ALL LEVELS BY ENSURING THAT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE VOICE, CONCERNS AND ISSUES ARE REPRESENTED WHEREVER IT IS MOST APPROPRIATE

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stafford, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £358,702, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet the charity's policy target of maintaining between three and nine months of operational costs. The charity reported a net loss of £5,320 for the year, driven largely by investment losses, but maintains a strong cash position and secured core funding through a VCSE contract extending to July 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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

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
• 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 06876220

Funders the charity credits

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

• Staffordshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner’s Office (PFCC) — “Since December 2021, the PFCC funded 2 PSHE Coordinator posts for Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent to support the development and delivery of …” (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.

• CRADDOCK, Thomas James — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• DOWE, Teejay — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• WOOD, Alexander William — director, appointed 20/04/2020on trustee list
• WHEAT, Alana Kate — director, appointed 20/04/2020on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Stephen John — director, appointed 15/04/2019on trustee list
• BONE, Lisa Jayne — director, appointed 15/04/2019on trustee list
• TANNER, Julie Karen — director, appointed 22/01/2018on trustee list
• MASON, Deborah Julie — secretary, appointed 18/05/2011

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alana Kate Wheat · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander William Wood
• JULIE KAREN TANNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Jayne Bone · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Haydon
• TeeJay Dowe · trustee of 2 other charities
• Thomas James Craddock

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Derbyshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HEREFORDSHIRE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS SUPPORT SERVICE.

• HEREFORDSHIRE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS SUPPORT SERVICE income £619k
• ESSEX COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES income £472k
• WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £2.0m
• ALDBOURNE YOUTH COUNCIL income £54k
• SPROWSTON YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PROJECT income £211k
• SHROPSHIRE YOUTH SUPPORT TRUST income £356k

Side by side with its peers

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