BARNET YOUTH ZONE

Registered charity 1173239 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNITAS

Barnet Youth Zone (Unitas) opened on June 23rd 2019. The vision at Unitas Youth Zone is to unite young people to help them fulfil their potential. We provide young people with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to. We are open 7 days a week and deliver a range of exciting activity-based programmes that challenge, stimulate, and provide new opportunities for young people.

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Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.8m

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an operating deficit of £503,025 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its total funds from £6.69m to £6.19m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £589,243 represent approximately 4.2 months of operating expenditure, which the trustees consider to be at the lower bound of their stated reserves policy. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient funds to maintain operations for at least the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: between four and nine months’ operating expenditure (held: £589k)

“The Trustees’ policy is to hold between four and nine months’ operating expenditure in reserve, excluding designated and restricted funds, with a target of six months.” — page 11

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.8m

Cost of raising funds

£21k

Reserves (reported)

£532k

Employees

101

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 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 (87% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Stuart Levychair
Alison Benjamin · trustee of 1 other charity
Cherryann Aulis
Humayune Khalick
Janaki Kamala Allen
Kevin Munday
Lindsay Allen
Neelesh Karsan Dhanji Patel
Rhea Janki Raj Somaiya
Stephen Curtis
Thomas David Profumo

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.3m	£1.8m
31/03/2024	£1.4m	£1.7m
31/03/2023	£1.4m	£2.1m
31/03/2022	£1.3m	£1.7m
31/03/2021	£2.1m	£1.3m

Common questions

Is BARNET YOUTH ZONE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded an operating deficit of £503,025 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its total funds from £6.69m to £6.19m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £589,243 represent approximately 4.2 months of operating expenditure, which the trustees consider to be at the lower bound of their stated reserves policy. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient funds to maintain operations for at least the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds BARNET YOUTH ZONE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BARNET YOUTH ZONE as a grant recipient include THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION, THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE DANSON FOUNDATION, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE PHILLIPS AND RUBENS CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£84k	Capital/Development
THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£66k	Welfare
THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£63k	Capital
THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£55k	Grants to Barnet Youth Zone
THE DANSON FOUNDATION	FY2023	£15k
THE DANSON FOUNDATION	FY2022	£5k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	FY2024	£5k	Youth
THE PHILLIPS AND RUBENS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£4k
THE DWF FOUNDATION	FY2022	£500

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
IGY FOUNDATION	3	£1.5m
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION	2	£100k
THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION	2	£40k
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	2	£5k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£1k
THE JD FOUNDATION	1	£561k
ISSA FOUNDATION	1	£324k
Brian Mercer Trust	1	£320k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE.

BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE income £1.2m
UNITAS income £943k
THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m
CROYDON YOUTH ZONE income £1.0m
BARKING & DAGENHAM YOUTH ZONE income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BARNET YOUTH ZONE	£1.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE FY2025	£5.3m	—	—	unclear	5.1%	no doubt
CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	within	—	no doubt
UNITAS FY2025	£943k	£70,001 - £80,000	—	above	—	no doubt
THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED FY2025	£3.2m	£70,000 - £75,000	1	within	—	no doubt
CROYDON YOUTH ZONE FY2025	£1.0m	—	—	within	—	noted

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