CITY YEAR UK

Registered charity 1131350 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CITY YEAR LONDON, CITY YOUTH LIMITED

For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training) of people under the age of 25 years in the UK, including by organising and assisting with the provision of volunteers to schools to act as tutors, mentors and role models to students.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS IN HE UNITED KINGDOM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY ORGANISING AND ASSISTING WITH THE PROVISION OF VOLUNTEERS TO SCHOOLS TO ACT AS TUTORS, MENTORS AND ROLE MODELS TO STUDENTS

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell significantly to £6,458, which is well below the trustees' stated policy target of two to three months of operating expenditure (£327,000–£491,000). Per the trustees' report, the charity reported a net outgoing resource position and faces a material uncertainty regarding its ability to secure sufficient fundraising income to meet obligations in the 2026/27 financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% 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: 16.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Davieschair
• ANNMAURA CONNOLLY
• James Terry
• Kasey Elizabeth Hooper
• Michael Lynas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rodney Williams
• Stephanie Wu

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEADERS IN COMMUNITY.

• LEADERS IN COMMUNITY income £327k
• Open City income £1.1m
• CITY WORSHIP GLOBAL income £52k
• YORK CITY KNIGHTS FOUNDATION income £201k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• CENTRE FOR CITIES income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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