All About Youth
Registered charity 1172685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHROPSHIRE YOUTH ASSOCIATION, SYA
Support over 600 volunteers to run voluntary Youth clubsDeliver Youth Clubs & projects (fully staffed clubs and bespoke projects like Short breaks work with disabled young people, LGBTQ club and Shropshire Young Health Champions)Deliver Alternative curriculum workTraining for the youth sector (Youth Work, Safeguarding, talking to your teenager, CEOP, First Aid etc)DBS Umbrella organisation
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £316,129, which the trustees consider maintains the policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The filing notes that while the sector remains volatile with 29 different funders, the charity's risk is spread, although the build phase of a new building has caused some uncertainty and unforeseen costs.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three and six month’s expenditure (held: £316k)
“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by James Holyoak & Parker Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Richard Parkes — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Vanessa Postle — Area Manager – Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
- Kerry Williams — Area Manager – Designated Safeguarding Lead (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.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£40k
Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (16/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Neil Bentleychair
- Adrian Penney
- Charlotte Cain
- David Henry Bishop
- Niamh Kelly
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Shropshire · Telford & Wrekin
Income and spending
Common questions
Is All About Youth financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £316,129, which the trustees consider maintains the policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The filing notes that while the sector remains volatile with 29 different funders, the charity's risk is spread, although the build phase of a new building has caused some uncertainty and unforeseen costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by James Holyoak & Parker Limited.
Who funds All About Youth?
Funders whose own accounts filings name All About Youth as a grant recipient include THE MILLICHOPE FOUNDATION, THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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