FITZROVIA YOUTH IN ACTION
Registered charity 1136697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FYA
Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA) is a community based youth action project that uses youth work, sports, mentoring and work experience placements to empower children and young people to overcome the barriers they face, fulfill their potential and create positive change in their community.
Objects
The advancement of education of children and young people by developing individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding to lead and inspire social action in their communities.We will do this especially, but not exclusively, in and around the London Borough of Camden through; 1. the provision of training in life skills, mental health awareness and healthy exercise 2. the provision of social action programmes, sports activities, creative art activities and other recreational and educational activities as well as through; 3. sharing our knowledge and expertise with organisations both locally and nationally to enable them to develop the skills and competencies required to deliver similar projects so as to fulfil their potential with the confidence and skills to create positive change for themselves, with their peers and within their communities, for the public benefit.
Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN AND THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £42,337 and total unrestricted reserves of £713,288. The trustees consider the reserves healthy, noting they hold nine months of annual total costs to cover operations and wind-up costs. The auditor confirmed no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: 9 months of annual total costs (held: £713k)
“The current level of reserves available are held as follows: 9 months of annual total costs to cover for continuing operations” — page 46
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Fitzrovia Youth in Action Activities Limited
“The charity holds 1 ordinary share of £1 in its wholly owned trading subsidiary company Fitzrovia Youth in Action Activities Limited” — page 76
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Smartax 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
- 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
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting 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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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 33
- Government income: £554,802 — contracts £199,388 (1), grants £355,414 (6); 46% of the £1,194,684 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 33
- Government income: £930,384 — contracts £249,388 (2), grants £680,996 (8); 82% of the £1,137,466 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 30
- Government income: £500,220 — contracts £270,388 (3), grants £229,832 (4); 59% of the £843,017 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Andre Schott — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Javier Sajuria — Chairperson (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram · linkedin
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£176k
Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 14.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (02/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Javier Sajuriachair
- Afrin Alam
- Alice Weavers
- Brian Christopher Willmore
- Emmanuella Ngalula Ilunga
- Idriz Adedoja · trustee of 1 other charity
- Lorna Emma Ponambalum
- Mark David Seaborne
- Marya Arian
- Matthew Springett
- Morette Jackson
- Natalie Speranza
- Patricia Ann MARRON
- Pippa Aspin
- Victoria Panormo · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Camden · City Of Westminster
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FITZROVIA YOUTH IN ACTION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £42,337 and total unrestricted reserves of £713,288. The trustees consider the reserves healthy, noting they hold nine months of annual total costs to cover operations and wind-up costs. The auditor confirmed no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Smartax Limited.
Who funds FITZROVIA YOUTH IN ACTION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name FITZROVIA YOUTH IN ACTION as a grant recipient include CAMDEN GIVING, THE CHILDHOOD TRUST, THE RAYNE FOUNDATION, YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATION, ST GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS AND WILLIAM SHELTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITY.
Known funders
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