LEADERS IN COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1137183 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES, TRAINING DEVELOPMENT, VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES, LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND MENTORING,YOUTH SERVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 13-25

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG ADULTS BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG ADULTS DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALSB ADVANCING EDUCATION; ANDC RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENTEDUCATION AND TO DEVELOP THE BENEFICIARIES' 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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £148,785 against a stated contingency target of £10,000, indicating a strong reserves position. However, the charity reported a net expenditure of £113,284 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £316,369 to £203,085. The trustees confirmed that available funds are sufficient to continue operating effectively.

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 6 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
• 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.

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 03/04/2024, 63 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06806199

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.

• MCGUIRE, Andrew John — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• ARTHUR, Janice — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• BANDEALI, Asad — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• ZUCKER, Shelley — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• MASHAL, Sumaia — director, appointed 28/11/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sumaia Mashalchair
• Andrew McGuire
• Asad Bandeali
• Hema Kana
• Janice Arthur
• Merlyn Holkar
• Nasim Ahmed
• Shelley Zucker
• Simon Dodd

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG GENERATION.

• YOUNG GENERATION income £35k
• YOUTH LEADS UK income £472k
• INSPIRING TEACHERS income £395k
• MOTIVATION AND LEARNING TRUST income £60k
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• THE WHAT? CENTRE LIMITED income £582k

Side by side with its peers

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