BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE

Registered charity 1135949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Youth Zone's principle activity is the provision of a purpose built, world class 21st century facility for sport and recreation in Blackburn for young people aged 8-18 years old. The Youth Zone delivers 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 RESIDENTIN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTINGTHEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULLMATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFEMAY 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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackburn with Darwen, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £2,435,969 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven largely by restricted Youth Investment Fund income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £712,026, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 4.2 months of operating costs against a policy target of three months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DonnellyBentley Ltd. 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 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Entrepreneur's tech outfit is latest Blackburn Youth Zone patron lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 19/03/2024
• Blackburn Youth Zone named one of most resilient organisations by law firm lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 25/10/2021
• Blackburn Youth Zone celebrating its 'busiest time ever' lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 22/02/2020
• Blackburn Youth Zone to close over Christmas for major building works lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 10/12/2018
• Tributes paid to Blackburn Youth Zone worker Bob McKnight lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 01/05/2018
• Mums’ zip wire Ewood Park challenge in aid of Blackburn Youth Zone lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 27/03/2017
• Blackburn Youth Zone to host Zumbathon in celebration of International Women’s Day theshuttle.org.uk · 03/03/2017
• Blackburn College and Blackburn Youth Zone team up to future proof town's youth lancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 01/04/2016

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

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 ~3.0 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 (96% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW HAROLD GRAHAM
• Adam Salim Sidat
• Emma Louise Swan
• Jack Harvey Lamb
• Julia Bates · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Debra Robinson
• Martin Anthony Kelly
• Michelle Dixon
• Phillip Skupski
• Rt Hon John Whitaker Straw · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m
• MAHDLO (OLDHAM YOUTH ZONE) income £1.8m
• CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE income £1.2m
• WOLVERHAMPTON YOUTH ZONE income £1.6m
• EMPOWER YOUTH ZONES LTD income £11.6m
• PRESTON YOUTH ZONE LTD income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

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