Youth Careers Collective

Registered charity 1138697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEBC, HOUNSLOW EDUCATION BUSINESS CHARITY

Youth Careers Collective (formerly trading as Spark!) exist to enhance young people's employability skills, knowledge, experience and access, so that they are ready, equipped, motivated and able to transition into sustained employment and rewarding careers.

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Latest income

£887k

Latest spending

£850k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a healthy financial position with a surplus of £36,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £293,273, which the trustees consider sufficient to ensure the delivery of projects and orderly winding down if necessary. The future of income streams remains somewhat uncertain due to competitive funding applications, though multi-year partnerships have improved financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to ensure that the charity is able to enable the delivery of its projects, whilst also keeping costs to schools as low as possible, and if necessary, the trustees would be able to arrange an orderly winding down of the charity's affairs (held: £293k)

“The trustees consider the reserve levels are still sufficient to ensure that the charity is able to enable the delivery of its projects, whilst also keeping costs to schools as low as possible, and if necessary, the trustees would be able to arrange an orderly winding down of the charity's affairs, whereby all its financial responsibilities and obligations would be honoured.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Youth Careers Collective (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Total income

£887k

Total spending

£850k

Cost of raising funds

£36k

Reserves (reported)

£297k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Susan Swabeychair
Amina Seba
Bramman Rajkumar
Joseph Skelton
Kelvin Chao Yang Zhang
Keren Malka Fairaizen Segal
Lisa Nixon
Sharan Kaur Phull
Timothy Woodthorpe

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£887k	£850k
31/03/2024	£687k	£652k
31/03/2023	£532k	£516k
31/03/2022	£334k	£331k
01/04/2021	£160k	£270k

Common questions

Is Youth Careers Collective financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity maintained a healthy financial position with a surplus of £36,685 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £293,273, which the trustees consider sufficient to ensure the delivery of projects and orderly winding down if necessary. The future of income streams remains somewhat uncertain due to competitive funding applications, though multi-year partnerships have improved financial sustainability. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Youth Careers Collective?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Youth Careers Collective as a grant recipient include JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST, YOUNG EALING FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£33k
YOUNG EALING FOUNDATION	FY2025	£6k	Creative Minds

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/05/2021	£9k	CONNECT Mentoring
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/02/2019	£10k	CONNECT Mentoring
London Borough of Hounslow	08/03/2018	£13k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	17/11/2017	£10k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	15/11/2017	£500	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	07/11/2016	£10k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	06/08/2016	£2k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	04/07/2016	£20k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	04/07/2016	£2k	Grant to Spark!
London Borough of Hounslow	20/07/2015	£3k	Grant to Spark!