APOLLO YOUTH CLUB

Registered charity 290271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of the public resident in Reading and the neighbourhood in the art, history and culture of people of African and Caribbean origin.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC RESIDENT IN READING AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT') IN THE ART, HISTORY AND CULTURE OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN ORIGIN. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW IN FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. FOR FURTHER OBJECTS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Area of benefit: READING AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF

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

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Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £1,003 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement on the previous year. The trustees note that the financial environment remains particularly challenging with additional uncertainty following the dissolution of The MAPP Partnership. Restricted funds remained static at £16,000, while unrestricted cash funds decreased from £27,289 to £19,286.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 10/02/2026, 10 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 02/03/2025, 30 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 03/03/2024, 32 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aaron Grandison
• Jackie Daniel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phyllis Angela White
• Sharon Titus

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION.

• THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £805k
• ALNWICK YOUNG PEOPLES ASSOCIATION income £132k
• ROBERTTOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £35k
• MARYBONE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £209k
• REACH UP YOUTH income £236k
• THE PETER ASHLEY ACTIVITY CENTRES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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