4Youth (South West)

Registered charity 1147394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EXTENDED SERVICES (MELKSHAM AREA), TeenTalk, YOUNG MELKSHAM, Young Melksham

We are a local charity, working with children, young people and their families in the Melksham community area. Services delivered by the organisation include:*Drop-in counselling services *Opportunity Melksham Jobs Fair*Melksham Young Peoples Awards*Narrowing the gap*Local Youth Network *Provision of minibus youth activities *Youth club*Spice time credits*Youth networking event

Objects

1) To advance in life and act as a resource for children and young people, their parents and carers by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:a) advancing in life and helping children and young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;b) advancing education;c) providing recreational and leisure time activities in the interest of social welfare designed to improve their conditions of life.2) To relieve the mental and physical distress of young people by providing a targeted pastoral and counselling service.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a net loss of £1,572 for the year ended 31 December 2024. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were negative £44,662, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining unrestricted funds at a level equivalent to between three and six months' expenditure. The trustees maintain a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 4Youth (South West) (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REBECCA LEEchair
• Adrian Clifford Elsbury
• Elisabeth Clare Thomas · trustee of 3 other charities
• Georgina Stevens
• Lewis Henley-Francis
• Miriam Zaccarelli

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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