WOLVERHAMPTON YOUTH ZONE

Registered charity 1151247 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

It is intended that the charity will help and educate young people of all abilities, resident in the Wolverhampton area, through the provision of sports, arts and recreation activities, mentoring and employability support designed to provide them with the opportunities to fulfil their physical and spiritual potential, and to enable them to raise their aspirations and confidence levels.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE WEST MIDLANDS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of approximately £19,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £4,176,382, which the trustees acknowledge remain below their policy target of three months of operating costs, though they remain confident in the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by bk plus Audit Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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 08341220

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Way Youth Zone, Wolverhampton (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PAYNE, Cecilia Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/05/2026on trustee list
• BISSITT, Calvin Stockwell Barry — director, appointed 06/08/2025on trustee list
• HUMPAGE, Paige — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• HAWKINS PINCHERS, Connar — director, appointed 21/05/2025not on trustee list
• ADEKOYA, Ogheneochuko Victoria — director, appointed 29/01/2025on trustee list
• ROOK, Lucy Amara — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• VITALIS, Edward — director, appointed 17/07/2024not on trustee list
• SUMMAN-RAM, Amarjit Kaur — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• RAJU, Ashok Kumar — director, appointed 03/02/2023on trustee list
• MUNRO, Timothy Paul — director, appointed 06/09/2022on trustee list
• BASHFORD, Louise Jane — director, appointed 27/04/2022on trustee list
• SUMMAN-RAM, Amarjit Kaur — secretary, appointed 17/07/2024

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 9.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tracy Vitalischair
• Amarjit Kaur Summan-Ram
• Ashok Kumar Raju
• Calvin Stockwell Barry Bissitt
• Cecilia Elizabeth Payne
• Connar Hawkins Pinchers
• Kathryn Ann Morley · trustee of 1 other charity
• LOUISE JANE BASHFORD
• Lucy Amara Rook
• Paige Humpage
• Timothy Munro

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

Operates in: Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

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

• WIRRAL YOUTH ZONE income £1.3m
• DURHAM AREA YOUTH income £257k
• BARKING & DAGENHAM YOUTH ZONE income £1.8m
• WOLVERCOTE YOUNG PEOPLES CLUB LTD income £123k
• CHORLEY YOUTH ZONE income £2.1m
• THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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