YKIDS LTD

Registered charity 1141530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YKIDS

Ykids works to benefit the lives of children, young people and families living in deprivation in Merseyside. We deliver projects, activities and events to build emotional resilience, develop skills, raise aspirations and bring about community transformation.The charity has a Christian ethos and also works to support churches develop effective, relevant and engaging youth and children's work

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BYPROVIDING EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL,PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED, FOR THEPUBLIC BENEFIT.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sefton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £46,714 fall significantly short of the trustees' stated policy target of £150,000 to £300,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £54,420 for the year, resulting in a decrease in cash at bank from £80,716 to £21,867.

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 5 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ykids (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JAIME CRAIGchair
• ANDREA PARRY
• Andrew Christian Kent
• Frances Meg Mann
• KEVIN THOMAS
• ROY COLEMAN
• Steve Matthews
• Tanya Edwards

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

Operates in: Liverpool City · Sefton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KIDS income £9.4m
• YOUTH ACTION & DIVERSITY TRUST LTD income £196k
• MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m
• SUPERKIDZ COMMUNITY TRUST income £186k
• YORKSHIRE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £1.8m
• THE YOUNG LIVES FOUNDATION income £984k

Side by side with its peers

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