Manchester YMCA
Registered charity 250658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIGHT EYES CHILDCARE CENTRE, CASTLEFIELD HOTEL AND Y CLUB, THE MANCHESTER YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED), Y CLUB, YMCA BRIGHT EYES CHILDCARE ACTIVITY CENTRE
The Manchester YMCA operates a sports and fitness centre (The Y Club) in Manchester city centre. It also operates a subsidiary company, Castlefield Hotel Limited. Manchester YMCA aims to build strong families and strong communities through programmes aimed at self development and personal growth.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a total income of £3,702,587 and a net surplus of £542,915 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £6,305,404, with free reserves of £453,000 equivalent to two months of operating expenses, and the trustees confirm sufficient resources to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Trading subsidiary: Castlefield Hotel limited
“Manchester YMCA is the sole beneficiary of a subsidiary company, the Castlefield Hotel limited, which operates the Castlefield Hotel on the same site as the Y Club.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
CASTLEFIELD HOTEL LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- The company has guaranteed the bank borrowings of its parent company, Manchester YMCA. There were no such borrowings as at 31 March 2025.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Gavin Tucker — Chair of Trustees (source)
- Andrew Birtwistle — Trustee (source)
- Reverend Canon Simon Gatenby — Trustee and Honorary Chaplain (source)
- Carol Hamlett — Trustee (source)
- Ryan Miemczyk — Trustee (source)
- Calum McGowan — Trustee (source)
- Ray Mashiter — Trustee (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.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- MCGOWAN, Calum David Robert — director, appointed 09/10/2024on trustee list
- MIEMCZYK, Ryan Paul — director, appointed 22/11/2022on trustee list
- HAMLETT, Carol — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list
- HOOD, Peter Douglas — director, appointed 30/05/2019on trustee list
- GATENBY, Simon John Taylor, Rev Canon — director, appointed 31/01/2019on trustee list
- TUCKER, Gavin Stuart — director, appointed 27/07/2018on trustee list
- GANDY, Michael — secretary, appointed 30/04/2015
Official officers record.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~23.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Gavin Tuckerchair
- Andrew Birtwistle
- Calum David Robert McGowan
- Carol Hamlett
- Peter Douglas Hood
- Rev Canon Simon Gatenby
- Ryan Miemczyk · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Manchester City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Manchester YMCA financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a total income of £3,702,587 and a net surplus of £542,915 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £6,305,404, with free reserves of £453,000 equivalent to two months of operating expenses, and the trustees confirm sufficient resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) limited.
Who funds Manchester YMCA?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Manchester YMCA as a grant recipient include NORTH WEST YOUNG PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT TRUST, SKELTON BOUNTY.
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