READING YMCA
Registered charity 1140731 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Supported Housing for 40 YP aged 16-25 Training & Support; Community Cafe & Pre-School, Workshop for alternative education. Sports Centre and facilities for fitness and social activities. Links with 1st Reading Sea Scouts. Strategic aims - Be a leading voluntary Christian faith based organisation & an exemplar in work with young people in supported housing, children & youth work & leadership.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity delivered an operating surplus of £37,854 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves (accumulated fund) standing at £731,812. The trustees report that operations demonstrate consistent performance, delivering at breakeven in line with charitable status, and cash assets are retained at a level not below three times monthly operating costs. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £732k)
“Cash assets are retained at limit not below 3 x monthly operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Pension scheme deficit: £9.1m
“The valuation prepared as at 1 May 2023 showed that the YMCA Pension Plan had a deficit of £9.1 million.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Reading YMCA (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Dave Poulton — Chief Executive Officer (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.
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.
- DAWES, Sara Marie — director, appointed 26/01/2026on trustee list
- MEYJES, Grace Kim — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
- DENTON, Neil — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
- WILLIAMS, Rebekah Alexandra — director, appointed 24/01/2022on trustee list
- WOOLLEY, Gillian Mary — director, appointed 22/09/2020on trustee list
- DICK, Paul Gerard — director, appointed 25/03/2019on trustee list
- WOOLLEY, Gillian Mary — secretary, appointed 22/05/2023
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (09/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Gillian Woolley
- Grace Meyjes
- Neil Denton
- Paul Dick · trustee of 2 other charities
- Rebekah Williams
- Sara Dawes
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · West Berkshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is READING YMCA financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity delivered an operating surplus of £37,854 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves (accumulated fund) standing at £731,812. The trustees report that operations demonstrate consistent performance, delivering at breakeven in line with charitable status, and cash assets are retained at a level not below three times monthly operating costs. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit.
Who funds READING YMCA?
Funders whose own accounts filings name READING YMCA as a grant recipient include THE EARLEY CHARITY.
Known funders
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