YOUTH CONCERN

Registered charity 1175680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting vulnerable young people in Aylesbury

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WITHIN AYLESBURY VALE, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 13 AND 25 BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISATION PROGRAMMES OF DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A. ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B. ADVANCING EDUCATION;C. RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;D. PREVENTING YOUTH HOMELESSNESSE. PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.2. RELIEVING THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS OF YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT.3. PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ÆSOCIALLY EXCLUDEDÆ MEANS ÆYOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 TO 25 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; RACE; GENDER; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; DISABILITY; ETHNIC ORIGIN; OR WHO ARE WITHIN, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE PUBLIC CARE OR PENAL SYSTEM.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · 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 the charity reported a surplus of £56,376 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £345,258. This unrestricted balance is within the trustees' stated policy target range of £300,000 to £380,000, representing just over four months of operating costs. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Rainey
• Andrew Michael Bedwell
• Anna Maria Glover
• Ashley Lawrence Bailey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Ian Keating
• Laura Stoker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicci Marzec
• Paul Gibson Moore
• Roger Charles Dix · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS.

• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• YOUTH EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY income £70k
• SEDBERGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £158k
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• TANYARD YOUTH PROJECT LIMITED income £206k
• SIBTAYN YOUTH income £57k

Side by side with its peers

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