YOUNG CONCERN TRUST

Registered charity 298984 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides counselling and therapeutic services to children,young people and those that work with them.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELFARE OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH CARE AND ATTENTION BY THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND THERAPEUTIC AND RELATED SERVICES.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a £104,098 deficit, reducing total funds from £438,883 to £334,785. However, the trustees report the charity remains in a sound financial position, supported by healthy unrestricted reserves of £324,594. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02235097

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YOUNG CONCERN TRUST (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MILES, Julia Hilary — director, appointed 13/10/2021on trustee list
• INGALL, Mark — director, appointed 20/02/2018on trustee list
• LINTON, Andrew John — director, appointed 19/10/2016on trustee list
• FROST, Neil — director, appointed 28/02/2001on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Hilary Mileschair
• Andrew Linton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Ingall
• NEIL FROST · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 YOUNG MINDS TRUST.

• YOUNG MINDS TRUST income £7.9m
• NORTH WEST YOUNG PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £228k
• YWCA ENGLAND & WALES income £1.8m
• YOUTH ADVENTURE TRUST income £1.2m
• ISLE OF WIGHT YOUTH TRUST income £1.3m
• YOUTH CONCERN income £879k

Side by side with its peers

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