BOGNOR REGIS YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 305343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BOGNOR REGIS YOUTH CLUB

The charity provides a space in the heart of the Pevensey Ward & is an essential meeting place. Organisations such as Bognorphenia use the centre to provide arts workshops & also run Home Ed Shed & Youth Drop-In from there. Funding is raised in part by various services users hiring the centre as well fundraising and obtaining grants. Bognor's first Legal Art Wall is situated at the rear as well.

Objects

THE PURPOSE OF HELPING AND EDUCATING YOUNG PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES WHO HAVE NOT ATTAINED THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: BOGNOR REGIS AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £5,750 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £14,757 to £9,007. The trustees note that the financial situation is not ideal, with a cash balance of £9,858.77, and express reliance on additional grants expected for the coming year. The charity's reserves policy is to hold four months' operating costs, but actual reserves held were £9,147.20.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nic Dunnawaychair
• Andrew Clark
• Simon Edward McDougal
• Steve Goodheart · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).