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.

Objects

TO PROVIDE YOUNG PEOPLE, IN THE FORMER COUNTY OF AVON WITH ACCESS TO A RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGING EXPERIENCES WHICH PROMOTE THEIR PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Area of benefit: BRISTOL AND ADJACENT AREAS

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

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

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 7 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.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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 CONCERN.

• YOUTH CONCERN income £879k
• 224 Youth Zone Ltd income £4.8m
• YOUNG LEICESTERSHIRE LTD income £290k
• YOUNG LIFE INTERNATIONAL income £3.4m
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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