DIDCOT TRAIN - INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE

Registered charity 1176258 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TRAIN works with, and for, all young people in Didcot and its immediate surroundings, especially those who, for whatever reason, are having a tough time.TRAIN helps the young people in Didcot make informed choices, avoid risky behaviours, find ways out of difficult situations, find their own voices, and be who they want to be.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE EITHER HOMELESS OR OTHERWISE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

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 total income decreased to £293,719 from £377,922 in the prior year, primarily due to the timing of legacy instalments. Free reserves stood at £197,573, which is above the charity's stated policy target of four to six months of operating costs (£93,000 to £140,000), though trustees describe this as a temporary position arising from the Walker legacy.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Didcot TRAIN - Inspiring Young People (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Couldrickchair
• Arthur Humpfrey Baillie Brown
• Jacqueline McDowell
• Louise Catherine Courtney-Taylor
• NICOLE GUEST
• Paul James Brown
• Sabiene Rose North

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 CHANGING LIVES DIDCOT.

• CHANGING LIVES DIDCOT income £172k
• WORKTREE income £118k
• DERWENT TRAINING ASSOCIATION income £1.1m
• WARRINGTON TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £419k
• ABS TRAINING LTD income £207k
• YOUNG DEVON income £5.9m

Side by side with its peers

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