YMCA WELLINGTON AND DISTRICT

Registered charity 1172479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working in Wellington since 1859, YMCA Wellington provides support to the people of Telford through a variety of services.Supported housing for 16-25 year oldsFloating Support through the Thrive Floating Support ServiceThe Holly Project - peer led CSE Survivor service

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE:1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, INCLUDING BY:A) PROMOTING A CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED BY THE LIFE, EXAMPLE AND TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST, WHERE PEOPLE OF FAITH AND PEOPLE OF NONE CAN WORK TOGETHER FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMUNITIES; ANDB) ENABLING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE, TO FLOURISH THROUGH EXPERIENCING AND RESPONDING TO THE LOVE OF GOD DEMONSTRATED BY THE LIFE, EXAMPLE AND TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST.2) TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; 3) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;4) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE, WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES; AND5) TO RELIEVE OR ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND IN PARTICULAR YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON FOR THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus for the year, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £444,960. The trustees have established a reserves policy target of approximately £75,000, representing three months of overheads, which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves. The auditors confirmed the appropriateness of the going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified, although they issued a qualified opinion regarding limited audit evidence for specific income contracts and a historical property sale proceeds classification.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Independent Auditors LLP. 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YMCA Wellington and District (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Louisa Howells-Morgan — Chief Executive Officer (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 (2 freehold); recorded price paid £145k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 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 (77% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Haydn Paul Griffiths · trustee of 2 other charities
• PETER FRANCIS MURRAY
• Rev Timothy Stephen Carter

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

Operates in: Telford & Wrekin

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YMCA South Midlands Limited.

• YMCA South Midlands Limited income £4.6m
• YMCA ST HELENS income £4.5m
• YMCA LONDON CITY AND NORTH income £9.5m
• BURTON UPON TRENT AND DISTRICT YMCA income £2.1m
• WORCESTER YMCA income £1.6m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YMCA income £534k

Side by side with its peers

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