MYTIME

Registered charity 297481 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MYTime Young Carers, POOLE AND DORSET ADVENTURE CENTRE

MYTIME Young Carers provides young carers with the support, opportunity and friendships that every child deserves. The charity operates in Dorset and across the UK. It provides young carers with the opportunity to take a break from their caring responsibilities through the MYTIME Making Memories programme and supports young carers in education through its Level Up and Employability programmes.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE: (A) THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY RESIDENTIAL COURSES AND EXPEDITION TRAINING AND OTHERWISE; AND/OR (B) BY PROVIDING ADVICE, ASSISTANCE (INCLUDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE), TRAINING, AND SUPPORT, AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES; AND/OR (C) BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF MATTERS AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds grew to £424,340, with unrestricted reserves at £139,939 and an additional £175,000 endowment fund available at the Trustees' discretion. The charity reported a surplus of £155,625 for the year, driven by a 29% increase in income to £1,096,123. The trustees confirm the use of the going concern basis of accounting with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MYTIME Young Carers (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Simon Tanseychair
• Chris Symons
• Craig Jefferson
• Jemima Jennings · trustee of 1 other charity
• REBECCA GEORGINA GROOME TURNER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MY TIME FOR YOUNG CARERS.

• MY TIME FOR YOUNG CARERS income £28k
• BASINGSTOKE & DISTRICT YOUNG CARERS income £67k
• BE FREE YOUNG CARERS LTD income £421k
• WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS income £195k
• YOUNG CARERS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £209k
• WINCHESTER & DISTRICT YOUNG CARERS income £155k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.