POSITIVE YOUTH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1145284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of positive activities, leadership and support services for young people identified as being at-risk or vulnerable to a multiple of factors in relation to their personal and social development.

Objects

3. THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(A) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH MEMBERS OF COMMUNITIES, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE MIDLANDS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO COVENTRY WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING A NETWORK GROUP THAT ENABLE AND ENCOURAGES MEMBERS OF COMMUNITIES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE MIDLANDS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO COVENTRY TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY IN THEIR COMMUNITY USING CULTURAL PROGRAMMES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ART AND MUSIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SPORTING PROGRAMMES AS A MEANS OF GETTING PEOPLE TO TAKE PART IN JOINT ACTIVITY, IN PARTICULAR AMONG SOCIALLY OR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES PROVIDING WORKSHOPS, ADVOCACY MENTORING AND SUPPORT.(B) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH: (I) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (II) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION.(D) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (E) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE INVOLVED IN CHARITABLE YOUTH WORK BY:I. PROVIDING AND PROMOTING TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO THOSE INVOLVED IN CHARITABLE YOUTH WORK;II. PROMOTING THE POSITIVE SOCIAL VALUE OF YOUTH WORK AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOCIAL MOBILITY;III. REPRESENTING THE VIEW OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH WORKERS AND;IV. EDUCATING AND SUPPORTING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS ABOUT THE ROLE AND VALUE OF YOUTH WORK IN RELATION TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY?

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £861,632 at the year end, describing the surplus position as 'assuring' given the challenging sector landscape. The trustees report that the financial position remains 'healthy and balanced' and express confidence in the organization's sustainability despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07613299

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Positive Youth Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jon — Executive Director (source)
• Julie — Director of Business Services (source)
• Krishan — Director of Operations (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.

• TAKOLIA, Asif Hanif — director, appointed 16/04/2026on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, Anna Christina — director, appointed 04/11/2025on trustee list
• KIELY, John Joseph — director, appointed 07/03/2022on trustee list
• BINNS, Carl — director, appointed 28/01/2022on trustee list
• BARRETT, Cory Michael Lee — director, appointed 04/02/2021on trustee list
• JACK, Andrew Laird — director, appointed 16/02/2015on trustee list
• MAYNE, Vincent Patrick — director, appointed 23/08/2011on trustee list
• BHAYAT, Rashid — secretary, appointed 01/04/2020

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Joseph Kielychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Laird Jack
• Anna Christina Gallagher
• Asif Takolia
• Carl Binns
• Cory Michael Lee Barrett
• VINCENT PATRICK MAYNE

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• YOUTH ACTION income £531k
• YOUTH IN ACTION FOUNDATION income £60k
• PORTISHEAD YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £487k
• PRIORITY YOUTH PROJECT income £367k
• YOUNG GENERATION income £35k
• PS FOUNDATION income £560k

Side by side with its peers

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