YWCA ENGLAND & WALES

Registered charity 217868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLATFORM 51, Y W C A, YOUNG WOMEN'S TRUST

Young Women's Trust champions young women aged 18 to 30 on low or no pay. Our purpose is to create a more equal world of work and raise young women's incomes. We provide practical help so young women can get ahead, carry out research to shine a spotlight on the realities of their lives and bring together a network of thousands of young women to support each other and campaign for equality.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF YWCA ARE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IN FURTHERANCE OF THOSE OBJECTS:3.1 TO ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF DISADVANTAGE EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG WOMEN;3.2 TO ENCOURAGE THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT; AND3.3 TO PROMOTE LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY BY YOUNG WOMEN.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND/OR WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £1,171,000 for the year, resulting in an overall deficit of £1,000,000 after investment gains. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £971,000, which is below the stated policy target of six months of planned operating expenditure (£1,399,235).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sedulo London Limited. Discloses 4 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 handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Galaxy chocolate — “This research, commissioned by Galaxy chocolate as part of ‘The Unhumble Project’, explores how women in the UK think, feel and act when it …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 38.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Norrischair
• ADAM JAMES MCCORMACK
• Gianina Harvey-Brewin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Grace Imogen Wyld
• Hend Salih Adam Kheiralla
• Kruti Pabari
• Lorna Rachel Lewis
• Lucy Jade Austin
• Mary Jane Fiona NEATE
• Michelle Nelson
• Molly Rose Dawson
• Nikita Shrubsole
• Phillip Kerry
• Stephanie Michelle Driver

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD.

• YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD income £364k
• YOUNG LADIES CLUB income £204k
• THE WELSH ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS income £286k
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS (INCORPORATED) income £22.6m
• THE YOUNG FOUNDATION income £4.0m
• YOUTH REALITIES LIMITED income £273k

Side by side with its peers

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