YOUNG BRISTOL

Registered charity 301681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVON AND BRISTOL FEDERATION OF BOYS CLUBS, AVON AND BRISTOL FEDERATION OF CLUBS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Young Bristol is a youth driven charity that works to offer a choice of opportunities and experiences for all young people. By working in partnership with a range of community-based youth clubs, and directly with young people through our programme of activities, we respond creatively to their needs and realise their capabilities.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £150,625 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,148,284 against expenditure of £997,659. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,093,314, while free reserves were £362,070, which the trustees note is marginally below their desired range of approximately £400,000. The trustees concluded that the charity is adequately resourced and remains a going concern with no immediate financial risk.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lee Williams — Chief Executive (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Gosling Foundation — “Special thanks to The Gosling Foundation for supporting our website redevelopment” (source page)
• SR2 (Socially Responsible Recruitment) — “During 2020-22, SR2 donated over £49,000 to Young Bristol.” (source page)
• BBS Plumbing and Heating Supplies — “BBS Plumbing and Heating Supplies chose to support Young Bristol in the lead up to their 90 th Birthday Celebration Event in 2023. The Anniv…” (source page)
• Computershare — “Since the beginning of the partnership, Computershare have supported Young Bristol in a variety of ways, helping to raise thousands of pound…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMIE CAMERONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Lisa Jenkins
• Cathy Dodsworth
• Dr Fahma Mohamed
• Jay Nash
• Jonathan Webb
• Louisa Nancy Pharoah
• Luke Bigwood
• Marcus Robert Arthur Graham
• Shannon Ringland

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• YOUTH MOVES income £4.8m
• YOUNG SOMERSET income £4.3m
• YOUNG LIFE INTERNATIONAL income £3.4m
• Young Gloucestershire Limited income £3.6m
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• BRADFORD YOUTHBUILD TRUST LTD income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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