CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE

Registered charity 1134974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Youth Zone offers a place to go, something to do and someone to talk to for young people when the schools are closed. There is an affordable cafe and space to chill, as well as sports, arts and enterprise activities and some formal teams and clubs. Young people are clear what the Youth Zone must deliver - an offer that is varied and broad and has something for everyone: a space to be yourself

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £77,540 for the year, utilizing £77,283 of unrestricted reserves to bridge the gap between income and expenditure. The trustees' report notes that unrestricted free reserves of £368,379 provide cover for more than 3 months of operating costs, complying with the stated policy of maintaining 3 to 6 months of reserves. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by David Allen. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 07113460

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carlisle Youth Zone (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.

• WOOWAT, Philip — director, appointed 13/04/2026on trustee list
• MORGAN, Naomi Claire Marie — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• HALL, Duncan — director, appointed 20/10/2025on trustee list
• WALKER, Daniel James — director, appointed 17/06/2024on trustee list
• MENNELL, Julie, Professor — director, appointed 07/01/2023on trustee list
• MCINTYRE, Neil Stuart — director, appointed 12/12/2022on trustee list
• REID FOTHERINGHAM, Marcia Elaine — director, appointed 18/10/2021not on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Nicholas Simon — director, appointed 01/11/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Walker
• Dr Julie Mennell
• Duncan Hall
• Marcia Reid Fotheringham · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS SIMON MARSHALL
• Naomi Morgan
• Neil McIntyre
• Philip Woowat

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 CREWE YOUTH ZONE LTD.

• CREWE YOUTH ZONE LTD income £3.0m
• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• YOUTH SPACE income £139k
• THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m
• BARNSLEY YOUTH ZONE LTD income £6.5m
• CARLISLE KEY income £374k

Side by side with its peers

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