YOUNG LADIES CLUB

Registered charity 1179653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Young Ladies Club aims to raise aspirations in disadvantaged young women to achieve their education and career potential by providing mentoring, confidence building activities and career workshops from positive role models. The objects of the charity are to advance in life and help young ladies by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society.

Objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE:-TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG LADIES BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE ANDORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS AMEANS OF:(1) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG LADIES BY DEVELOPING THEIRSKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE INSOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(2) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(3) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;(4) PROVIDING CONFIDENCE BUILDING WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING PROGRAMMES TOSUPPORT YOUNG LADIES WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED AND FROM DISADVANTAGEDBACKGROUNDS.(5) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES FOR GIRLS IN GANGS ANDNEETS.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Waltham Forest, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£204k
Latest spending
£181k
Registered
2018
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £23,535 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £204,430 against total expenditure of £180,895. The unrestricted reserves stood at £73,818, which the trustees' report notes is above the stated policy minimum of three months of operating costs. The charity identified income generation as its main risk and plans to diversify funding streams to ensure long-term resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operating costs (reserves figure: £74k)
“A minimum of three months of operating costs should be retained.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2025

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Government income: £179,430 — contracts £158,230 (1), grants £21,200 (2); 88% of the £204,430 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2024

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Government income: £242,232 — contracts £240,032 (1), grants £2,200 (2); 96% of the £252,732 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2023

  • Volunteers: 25
  • Government income: £331,268 — contracts £179,368 (1), grants £151,900 (3); 100% of the £331,268 total gross income on the same return

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£204k£181k
30/09/2024£253k£202k
30/09/2023£331k£241k
30/06/2022£167k£109k
30/06/2021£80k£69k

Common questions

Is YOUNG LADIES CLUB financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £23,535 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £204,430 against total expenditure of £180,895. The unrestricted reserves stood at £73,818, which the trustees' report notes is above the stated policy minimum of three months of operating costs. The charity identified income generation as its main risk and plans to diversify funding streams to ensure long-term resilience. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds YOUNG LADIES CLUB?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YOUNG LADIES CLUB as a grant recipient include ROSA FUND.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ROSA FUNDFY2023£40kRise Fund
ROSA FUNDFY2024£18kRise Fund

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund04/06/2026£500kSHEROES
The National Lottery Community Fund04/09/2025£20kVAWG Programme

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
YOUNG LADIES CLUB£204k—0unclear—no doubt
YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD FY2025£364k—0unclear—no doubt
PORTISHEAD YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED FY2025£487k—0unclear—no doubt
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LONDON FY2025£125k—0above—no doubt
THE WELSH ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS FY2025£286k—0unclear—no doubt
YOUNG LIFE INTERNATIONAL FY2025£3.4m£60,001 - £70,0002below—no doubt

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