THE YOUNG BARNET FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1164713 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YBF

MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATION FOR THE COMMUNITY/VOLUNTARY SECTOR WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (0-25) IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £210,817 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £1,172,405 against total outgoing resources of £961,588. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £465,567, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months' operating costs, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2023) to £60,000 - £69,999 (FY2024).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Janet Matthewson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Hannah Guirao — Co-Chair (source)
• Oribi Davies — Co-Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• John Lyon's Charity — “Teachers have also benefited from a range of free workshops including Trans Awareness, Applying for Funding from John Lyon's Charity and Bid…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hannah Guiraochair
• Matthew Aihie
• Navaneethan Shanmugasundaram
• Oribi Davies
• Seema Mann

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 BARNET U3A.

• BARNET U3A income £135k
• HOME-START BARNET income £647k
• BARNET CARERS CENTRE income £1.8m
• YOUNG CAMDEN FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• YOUNG EALING FOUNDATION income £706k
• BARNET CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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