CAUDWELL YOUTH

Registered charity 1200757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Caudwell Youth provides support that changes the lives of at risk young people aged 11-24 yrs through person-centred support.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £1,108,937 with unrestricted funds carried forward of £387,678. The trustees report a healthy reserves position, holding over four months of expenditure in line with their policy of 3-6 months. The charity received an unqualified audit opinion confirming the financial statements give a true and fair view.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DJH Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Caudwell Youth (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Caudwell — Founder and Patron (source)
• Amanda Batten — Chief Executive (source)
• Charlie Dixon-Prior — Deputy CEO (source)
• Joel Voysey — Fundraising Director (source)
• Zoe Guy — Communications Director (source)
• Liam Ablewhite — Finance Director (source)
• Tui Benjamin Thorp — Fundraising Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery — “Caudwell Youth awarded National Lottery funding to help shape young people's futures” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Denyerchair
• Almarene Frederick
• Carolyn Pollard
• David Canfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Flounders
• Maria Harris
• Matthew Yates
• Tracey Shinkins-Watson

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire · Luton · Milton Keynes · Slough

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CUMBRIA YOUTH ALLIANCE income £3.4m
• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST income £1.3m
• YOUNG PEOPLE CORNWALL income £1.9m
• CANVEY ISLAND YOUTH PROJECT income £433k
• YOUTH 2000 CHARITABLE TRUST income £239k
• COLNE YOUTH ACTION GROUP income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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