KESWICK YOUTH CENTRE SERVICES CIO

Registered charity 1199550 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KYCS CIO

Keswick Youth Centre Services-CIO provide youth activity sessions that supports the personal, social, educational physical & mental health of young people to ensure that they grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and their conditions of life are improved.KYCS provides a safe space to enable young people to develop positive relationships

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 8 YEARS AND 25 YEARS, THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND THUS DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND 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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£72k

Latest spending

£39k

Registered

2022

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net incoming resource of £32,780 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £14,789. The trustees aim to keep reserves at the highest level possible over the next two years to fund a new youth centre project. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no matters requiring attention noted.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: highest level possible over the next 2 years (reserves figure: £15k)

“The Trustees are aiming to keep the reserves at the highest level possible over the next 2 years to ensure that maximum funds are available for the project to construct a new centre for young people.” — page 6

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.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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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)

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 31/07/2025

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £7,500 — grants £7,500 (1); 10% of the £71,962 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2024

Volunteers: 12
Government income: £5,777 — grants £5,777 (5,777); 23% of the £25,420 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2023

Volunteers: 14
Government income: £13,605 — grants £13,605 (2); 39% of the £35,308 total gross income on the same return

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Keswick Youth Centre Services (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (17/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Paul Charlton Titleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
Claudia Helen Walker
Deborah Anne Devereux
Ellen Buckley-Ashmore
Gary Lovatt
Katherine Jane Grave
Lucy Ann Fuggle
Nigel David Picton

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£72k	£39k
31/07/2024	£25k	£28k
31/07/2023	£35k	£36k

Common questions

Is KESWICK YOUTH CENTRE SERVICES CIO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a net incoming resource of £32,780 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £14,789. The trustees aim to keep reserves at the highest level possible over the next two years to fund a new youth centre project. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no matters requiring attention noted. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds KESWICK YOUTH CENTRE SERVICES CIO?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KESWICK YOUTH CENTRE SERVICES CIO as a grant recipient include FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£30k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Postcode Lottery	28/04/2025	£12k	Unrestricted Funding

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£200k
Richmond Foundation	1	£54k
THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED	1	£42k
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC	1	£25k
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k
THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. LUKE'S, MAIDENHEAD	1	£4k
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHWICH AND DISTRICT YOUTH CENTRE CIO.

NORTHWICH AND DISTRICT YOUTH CENTRE CIO income £41k
YOUTHSAYERS CIO income £102k
NORTH BENWELL YOUTH PROJECT CIO income £179k
WINDSOR & MAIDENHEAD YOUTH AND COMMUNITY COUNSELLING SERVICE income £1.2m
RE N-GAGE income £327k
KPC YOUTH AND COMMUNITY income £88k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
KESWICK YOUTH CENTRE SERVICES CIO	£72k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NORTHWICH AND DISTRICT YOUTH CENTRE CIO FY2025	£41k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
YOUTHSAYERS CIO FY2025	£102k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
NORTH BENWELL YOUTH PROJECT CIO FY2025	£179k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WINDSOR & MAIDENHEAD YOUTH AND COMMUNITY COUNSELLING SERVICE FY2026	£1.2m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
RE N-GAGE FY2025	£327k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	noted

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