BARRY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 251245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, BARRY BRANCH

Barry YMCA aims to provide in the communtity a meeting place where friendships and activities can be shared, which stimulates and challenges its members, in an environment that enables them to take reposibility and find a sense of achievment. It does this by offering a diverse programme of sport, education, social and play, services to its members.

Objects

FIRST, TO LEAD YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO THE FULLNESS OF LIFE IN HIM AND, SECONDLY, TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: BARRY

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £787,484 and total expenditure was £798,611, resulting in a net spending deficit for the period. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £1,272,022 against total net assets of £2,817,873. The filing notes that the annual return has not been submitted and no declaration has been made.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cllr Emma Goodjohn
• Cllr Ewan Goodjohn
• Cllr Sian Thomas
• Geoffrey Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Hill-Tout
• Kevin Ruwersma · trustee of 1 other charity
• LINDA RAY OWENS
• Robert Leeves · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stella Weston

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

Operates in: Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Heart of England Young Men’s Christian Association.

• Heart of England Young Men’s Christian Association income £7.5m
• LINCOLNSHIRE Y.M.C.A. LTD income £9.2m
• YMCA WOLVERHAMPTON income £4.4m
• YMCA NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LTD. income £6.3m
• BARAKA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £283k
• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NEATH BRANCH income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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