YOUTH FOCUS WEST MIDLANDS

Registered charity 1148687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YFWM

The Charity operates across the West Midlands providing support to local youth services to deliver direct services to young people in their communities

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE2) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves increased to £134,307, with total net assets standing at £201,734. The Chair's Foreword confirms that the financial position is healthier than ever, though the trustees remain vigilant due to the fragile nature of funding sources. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Jane Grove
• JON BOAGEY
• KERRY BARNES
• Simon Gillings
• William Paul Finnemore

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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