NO.5 YOUNG PEOPLE

Registered charity 1171313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

No 5 is a local charity, offering confidential listening to support children and young people and those around them, through a free counselling service for those aged 11 - 25, affected by mental or physical ill-health or by social and economic difficulties.

Objects

TO PROVIDE EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES TO PREVENT THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR OTHER CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ADVICE (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING SERVICES) TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES REGARDLESS OF DIFFERENCE IN BACKGROUND OR IDENTITY WHO LIVE, WORK, AND STUDY IN READING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £716,459 and held unrestricted reserves of £135,218 at year-end. This unrestricted balance exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £120,000, which represents six months of normal overhead expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £171,251, indicating a positive financial position with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — No 5 Young People (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin McEwenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ben Alexander Stone
• Deborah Edwards
• ELIZABETH BARRY
• Joycee Rebelo
• Katie Steele

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• YPI COUNSELLING income £196k
• YOUNG PERSONS CENTRE income £525k
• CROWBOROUGH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LTD income £61k
• YOUNG PEOPLE CORNWALL income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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