Innit For Young People
Innit For Young People is an award-winning Salford charity, utilising the Arts for employability programmes that transform outcomes for marginalised young people. Through our creative hub, gift gallery and fully equipped studio theatre, we provide safe spaces, paid pathways and high-impact support that builds confidence, skills and positive futures.
Objects
To help young people between the ages of 8 and 25, living in England, by:(a) Providing Arts-based activities, delivered in the interest of social welfare and designed to improve their mental health, wellbeing and conditions of life.(b) Providing support and activities for marginalised groups (i.e. those in the criminal justice system, those not in education training or employment, those with adverse childhood experiences, those in care, care givers et al). Thus, helping to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals/citizens.(c) Relieving unemployment and poverty, by encouraging young people to achieve their aspirations through informal mentoring and skills workshop-based activities.(d) Advancing education, particularly in the creative industries.(e) Offering training and consultancy to service providers across the youth sector.
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a healthy financial surplus of £16,826, including £12,000 in unrestricted reserves. The trustees report that the Creative Hub has become self-sustaining through social enterprise, generating a trading profit of almost £4,000. The organization expresses confidence in its future, noting secured multi-year funding and plans to launch a new studio theatre in September 2025.
What the accounts disclose
Policies the charity declares
- Bullying and harassment 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
- 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
Trustees
- Angela Jeanette Lea MA PGCEchair
- David Clare
- Ian Burns FIA
- Kirk Duncan Allen
- SHIRLEY DIVER BA PGDE
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2025 | £92k | £75k |
| 31/03/2024 | £101k | £144k |
| 31/03/2023 | £75k | £31k |
| 30/06/2022 | £9k | £5k |
| 30/06/2021 | £12k | £9k |
Common questions
Is Innit For Young People financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a healthy financial surplus of £16,826, including £12,000 in unrestricted reserves. The trustees report that the Creative Hub has become self-sustaining through social enterprise, generating a trading profit of almost £4,000. The organization expresses confidence in its future, noting secured multi-year funding and plans to launch a new studio theatre in September 2025.
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 28/07/2023 | £10k | Innit Creative Hub |