CREATIVE YOUTH

Registered charity 1132314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL, THE YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL

Creative Youth enable young people to realise their futures through the arts. Through organising workshops, our skills development programme and other strands of work we equip them with the skills and confidence to succeed in business and the arts. We produce bespoke creative solutions and celebrate the achievements of young people in the arts worldwide during FUSE International Festival.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, BY THEPROVISION OF AN ANNUAL YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL, IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £150,270, resulting in negative unrestricted reserves of £33,131 and net current liabilities of £41,960. The trustees acknowledge material uncertainty regarding going concern due to reliance on future funding bids, insurance claims from a post-year-end flood, and projected venue income. Despite these challenges, the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate based on anticipated support from key stakeholders.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06848384

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

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.

• MITTON-DAVIS, Michael, Mr. — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• SHAVE, Jonathan Christopher — director, appointed 18/01/2024on trustee list
• BREMBER, Amrita — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
• HUNTE, Michaela Cadie — director, appointed 19/04/2021on trustee list
• HANSON-AKINS, Molly Mopsa — director, appointed 17/04/2018on trustee list
• PIPER, Jason Christopher — director, appointed 07/06/2017on trustee list
• O'DOWD, Robert George — director, appointed 27/01/2016on trustee list
• MAYHEW-SMITH, Peter Mark Charles — director, appointed 22/04/2014on trustee list
• STEVENSON, Alan — director, appointed 16/03/2009on trustee list
• ALDERTON, Brett John — director, appointed 16/03/2009on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Ann Patricia — director, appointed 16/03/2009on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Robin Timothy — director, appointed 16/03/2009not on trustee list
• COLES, Louise — secretary, appointed 20/07/2026
• BLOXHAM, Colin Norman — secretary, appointed 16/03/2009

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBIN TIMOTHY HUTCHINSON MBEchair
• ANN HUTCHINSON
• Alan Leonard Stevenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amrita Brember · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRETT JOHN ALDERTON
• Jason Piper
• Jonathan Christopher Shave
• MOLLY MOPSA HANSON-AKINS
• Michael Mitton-Davis
• Michaela Hunte
• PETER MAYHEW-SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert George O'Dowd

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m
• CREATIVE FUTURES (UK) LIMITED income £411k
• CREATIVE FUTURE income £186k
• YOUTH CREATE income £53k
• Creative Kids Centre income £173k
• CREATE FOUNDATION income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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