BARNSLEY YOUTH ZONE LTD

Registered charity 1204087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Barnsley Youth Zone exists to provide young people with somewhere safe and inspiring to go in their leisure time. Open 7 days a week and offering up to 20 activities per session, young people can be active, access a hot meal for around £1 and find wider support to help them reach their full potential. The building is currently under construction and due to open in 2025.

Objects

THE CHARITY?S OBJECTS ARE TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN BARNSLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTING THEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnsley, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £114,194, which is significantly below the stated policy target of approximately three months of running costs. The charity is in its pre-operational phase, having received substantial donations and grants to fund construction, with total net assets standing at £7,982,691.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 21/05/2025, 21 days after the 30/04/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Reginald Eldred
• Benjamin Thomas
• Edward Patrick Austin
• Gary Peter Phillip Mark Hall
• Helen Clare Kanakides
• Helen Elizabeth Jaggar
• Helen Rebecca Ball
• John Clive Sanderson
• Karen Devonport
• Marie Louise Lang

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PRESTON YOUTH ZONE LTD.

• PRESTON YOUTH ZONE LTD income £5.8m
• GRIMSBY YOUTH ZONE income £10.7m
• CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE income £1.2m
• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• CREWE YOUTH ZONE LTD income £3.0m
• EMPOWER YOUTH ZONES LTD income £11.6m

Side by side with its peers

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