THE YOUNG FOUNDATION
Registered charity 274345 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUTUAL AID CENTRE
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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that the charity posted a net deficit of £57,179 for the year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £2,934,733. Per the trustees' report, this figure remains significantly above the stated policy target of six months' expenditure, which equated to a minimum of £1,420,000 at year-end. The trustees confirm the organization has sufficient funds to meet its reserves policy and continues to operate as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Grant from Local Trust
“During the year Local Trust awarded The Young Foundation a restricted grant of £25,000 for a project relating to community disaster preparedness. There were no amounts outstanding at 31 December 2024. Kate Hainsworth is a trustee of both Local Trust and The Young Foundation.” — page 43
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Dr Sue Griffiths — CEO (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.
- ADEGUN, Oluwatosin Ebunoluwa — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
- MENON, Kavya — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
- WARHURST, Pamela Janice — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
- HAINSWORTH, Kate — director, appointed 27/10/2022not on trustee list
- HAMID, Rizwana Shaheen — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
- DOBSON, Christopher Geoffrey — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
- JACOBS, Stephen Melvyn Edward — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
- BODDINGTON, Jonathan Mark Sobczyk — director, appointed 18/07/2019on trustee list
- ENGLAND, Kersten Elizabeth — director, appointed 04/07/2018on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)
Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE YOUNG FOUNDATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity posted a net deficit of £57,179 for the year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £2,934,733. Per the trustees' report, this figure remains significantly above the stated policy target of six months' expenditure, which equated to a minimum of £1,420,000 at year-end. The trustees confirm the organization has sufficient funds to meet its reserves policy and continues to operate as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.
Who funds THE YOUNG FOUNDATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name THE YOUNG FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation.
Known funders
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