YOUTURN FUTURES

Registered charity 1156468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YOUTURN

The coordination, management and delivery of multi-agency community safety initiatives to reduce crime and protect the public including: Bedfordshire's Integrated Offender Management Scheme, Direction for Bedfordshire, a dedicated, confidential signposting and case management service, Conditional caution interventions.Supported pathways for young people.Prevention of Exploitation.

Objects

1) THE REHABILITATION OF EX-OFFENDERS AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:A) FACILITATING THEIR INTEGRATION AND CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN SOCIETY;B) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND ADVOCACY FOR EX-OFFENDERS, THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING AND THE VICTIMS OF CRIME; ANDC) THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BEST PRACTICE MODELS OF INTEGRATED OFFENDER MANAGEMENT.2) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY)

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: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £113,401 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a net incoming resource of £17,253 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted liquid reserves amounted to £219,720, while restricted reserves stood at £242,814. The trustees consider the financial performance to have been satisfactory and have confirmed the charity is a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Nina Pearson
• Ian Henry Price
• John Edward MURPHY
• KIRSTIE COOK
• Melissa Jayne Girt
• Paul Downing
• Sarah Riddy
• Tatyanna Abolanle Antoine

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Luton · Norfolk · Northamptonshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FURZEDOWN YOUTH CENTRE LTD.

• THE FURZEDOWN YOUTH CENTRE LTD income £45k
• DURHAM AREA YOUTH income £257k
• YOUNG GENERATION income £35k
• YOUTH ADVENTURE TRUST income £1.2m
• FUTURE income £268k
• SEDBERGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £158k

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