YOUTH ORGANISATIONS IN UNIFORM WEST MIDLANDS CIO

Registered charity 1198465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YOU WM

The Charity supports a part-time co-ordinator and the costs of events and activities to deliver the key objectives of information and guidance through a website, capacity building though attracting adult volunteers, supporting sharing and collaboration, and advocacy and raising awareness of the benefits of being involved in one of the eleven youth organisations in uniform in the West Midlands.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES OF YOUTH ORGANISATIONS WHOSE MEMBERS WEAR UNIFORMS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) CONSULTING WITH THE UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATIONS TO DEVELOP APPROPRIATE PLANS FOR DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION.(B) PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO YOUNG PEOPLE, PARENTS AND CARERS TO ENABLE THEM TO CHOOSE THE MOST APPROPRIATE UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATION.(C) ENABLING CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATIONS BY ADVICE TO ATTRACT AND DEVELOP ADULT VOLUNTEERS.(D) SUPPORTING COLLABORATION BETWEEN UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATIONS FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT.(E) RAISING AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP OF UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATIONS TO THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY THROUGH ADVOCACY, EVENTS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS.‘WEST MIDLANDS’ IS THE CITIES OF BIRMINGHAM, COVENTRY AND WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS OF DUDLEY, SANDWELL, SOLIHULL, AND WALSALL.‘UNIFORMED YOUTH ORGANISATIONS’ ARE THOSE UNITS WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE WEST MIDLANDS OF THE ARMY CADET FORCE, BOYS BRIGADE AND GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION, COMBINED CADET FORCE, FIRE CADETS, GIRLS’ BRIGADE, GIRLGUIDING, RAF AIR CADETS, SEA CADET CORPS, SCOUTS, ST JOHN AMBULANCE AND THE VOLUNTEER POLICE CADETS, TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER YOUTH ORGANISATIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THE FUTURE CONSIDER SUITABLE FOR INCLUSION.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted and restricted cash reserves of £39,374 at the end of the period, against a policy target of maintaining sufficient reserves to fund planned activity for at least 12 months. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause them to believe the accounts did not comply with applicable requirements.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Marshchair
• COLONEL Richard Lewis Maybery · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isabelle Elizabeth Rebecca Harris
• KYLE ALDRIDGE
• Lady DIANA CHARLOTTE CRABTREE
• MIA GRIFFIN
• Mark Heywood · trustee of 2 other charities
• NIGEL WAYNE SARLING

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Wolverhampton

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH FOCUS WEST MIDLANDS.

• YOUTH FOCUS WEST MIDLANDS income £141k
• NORTH BENWELL YOUTH PROJECT CIO income £179k
• NORTHWICH AND DISTRICT YOUTH CENTRE CIO income £41k
• MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m
• WEST BOWLING YOUTH INITIATIVE income £88k
• THE MIDDLESEX FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £258k

Side by side with its peers

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