YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NEATH BRANCH

Registered charity 250983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Established in 1875, YMCA Neath is a non profit making charitable association serving the people of the Neath North Ward and surrounding areas.A community based organisation providing a wide range of educational, sporting and recreational activities for children, young people and adults in our local and neighbouring communities.

Objects

FIRST, TO LEAD YOUNG MEN AND BOYS TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO FULNESS OF LIFE IN HIM AND, SECONDLY, TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NEATH AND DISTRICT

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 · Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds stood at £125,279 with free reserves of £66,408, which the trustees note is above their policy target of approximately £60,000 to £65,000. The charity reported a net surplus of £5,160 for the year, having previously held a surplus of £23,043 in 2024. The trustees confirm that the charity has sound financial management and sufficient resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KEVIN LEWISchair
• ALAN MARTIN EVANS
• Alan Richard Lockyer
• Clive Ball
• Emrys Elias
• Joanna L Jenkins MBE
• Marcia Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Lynn Maddocks
• Sarah Hemington

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

Operates in: Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM YMCA.

• CHELTENHAM YMCA income £4.5m
• YMCA SOUTH DEVON income £1.1m
• PONTYPRIDD YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £2.0m
• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, PORT TALBOT BRANCH income £316k
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS (INCORPORATED) income £23.0m
• LINCOLNSHIRE Y.M.C.A. LTD income £9.2m

Side by side with its peers

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