DARLASTON YOUTH CENTRE

Registered charity 1178605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a youth centre

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 19 LIVING IN DARLASTON BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, 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) 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.’

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Walsall, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £42,750 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £107,688 and expenditure of £64,938. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are maintained at a level equivalent to six months' expenditure, a policy target that has been maintained throughout the year. The charity holds total net assets of £117,056, comprising £64,365 in unrestricted funds and £52,691 in restricted funds.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 08/05/2024, 8 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10226260

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BLACKWOOD, Lance — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• NAHAL, Lucie — director, appointed 03/07/2026on trustee list
• AKHTAR, Raqia — director, appointed 10/06/2016not on trustee list
• OWEN, Alfred David — director, appointed 10/06/2016not on trustee list
• AKHTAR, Raqia — secretary, appointed 18/01/2018

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALFRED DAVID OWEN OBEchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• LANCE GARFIELD BLACKWOOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lucie Jane Nahal
• Rev GILBERT DAVID

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• DROYLSDEN YOUTH CENTRE income £191k
• YOUTH CONCERN income £879k
• CATALYST YOUTH TRUST income £33k
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m
• ISLANDERS YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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