THE PETER ASHLEY ACTIVITY CENTRES

Registered charity 1162650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Youth Activity Centre

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £66,265 for the year, driven by increased building costs and a year-end adjustment to capital grant income recognition. Despite the deficit, unrestricted reserves of £135,666 remained in line with the charity's policy to hold sufficient reserves to cover at least three months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JWR Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lyn Ashley — President of the Trust (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (45% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRUCE HUBERT STRUGNELLchair
• MRS LYN ASHLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Thornton
• Paul Bishopp
• Stuart Seagrove

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• BARTON ACORN YOUTH, COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE income £161k
• BARFORD YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE income £596k
• HEYSHAM YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP income £306k
• YOUTH OPTIONS income £3.8m
• EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST income £505k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.