HARBOROUGH DISTRICT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1202997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HCYC

Supporting, and developing responses to, the needs of children, young people and their families in Harborough District and surrounding area. Specifically delivering play and youth work activities, especially to targeted communities such as local Gypsy and Traveller communities, and rurally isolated children and young people.

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 0 TO 25 YEARS LIVING IN HARBOROUGH DISTRICT AND ENVIRONS BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE, AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;C) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN HARBOROUGH DISTRICT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.AND;THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a deficit of £31,004, reducing total funds from £170,667 to £139,663. The trustees report that cash balances remained healthy at £146,696, providing sufficient liquidity to meet ongoing commitments. However, the charity faces ongoing funding uncertainty after a key funder declined repeat funding, prompting the development of an emergency financial plan that may involve reducing service provision or making redundancies.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Terence Canechair
• Andrew Kirk
• Andrew Munro
• Christopher Wood
• John Greenwood
• Mark Merryweather · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Sewell
• Robert Wakefield
• Susan Maguire

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARBOROUGH TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST.

• HARBOROUGH TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £419k
• MARKET HARBOROUGH BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £251k
• MARKET HARBOROUGH AND THE BOWDENS CHARITY income £421k
• THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY income £2.0m
• HARINGEY PLAY ASSOCIATION income £218k
• THE HARBOUR FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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