MAHDLO (OLDHAM YOUTH ZONE)

Registered charity 1134427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OLDHAM YOUTH ZONE

The Youth Zone's principle activity is the provision of a purpose built, world class 21st century facility for sport and recreation in Oldham for young people aged between 8 and 21 years old. The Youth Zone will deliver a range of high quality universal youth work services, seven days a week, which will be accessed voluntarily by young people on a membership basis.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND 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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £105,539 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a reduction of net assets from £6.24m to £6.14m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £848,520, which the trustees consider adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 13/02/2024, 13 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Wareing
• DAVID CHRISTOPHER BENSTEAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Darlington
• JANELLE MEUTH BARKER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jake Ashley Ankers · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Masraff
• Matthew Taylor
• TERENCE FLANAGAN
• Vinesh Mistry

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

Operates in: Oldham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m
• WOLVERHAMPTON YOUTH ZONE income £1.6m
• CHORLEY YOUTH ZONE income £2.1m
• DURHAM AREA YOUTH income £257k
• WIRRAL YOUTH ZONE income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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