WYCOMBE YOUTH ACTION

Registered charity 1172046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wycombe Youth Action works in the community to challenge attitudes and perceptions around young people. Our projects provide YP with the opportunity to give back to their community by questioning and changing the stereotypes faced by Gen Z today.We educate, engage and equip YP with the right tools, mindset and information to make positive choices and changes in their lives and relationships.

Objects

THE ENGAGEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH POSITIVE ACTIVITIES TO AID THEM IN THEIR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TO BECOME BETTER MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND/OR ACTIVITIES OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN HIGH WYCOMBE AND DISTRICT (THE AREA OF BENEFIT), BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by £46,098 to £146,164 due to reduced donations and grant applications. Consequently, the charity's free reserves dropped significantly from £21,930 to £8,365, a level the Trustees acknowledge is below their medium-term aim to build sufficient resources for termination costs.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/02/2024, 15 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wycombe Youth Action (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Akayla Alexis Hunt
• Leon Henry
• Peter Singleton
• Saima Ansari
• Simon Roger Kearey · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sumiyya Akhtar
• Usha Prashar

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG GENERATION.

• YOUNG GENERATION income £35k
• YOUTH ENQUIRY SERVICE (WYCOMBE) income £319k
• YOUTH ACTION income £531k
• YOUNG PEOPLE CORNWALL income £1.9m
• E P YOUTH LTD income £125k
• YOUTH ACTION & DIVERSITY TRUST LTD income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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