THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES AND ARETHUSA

Registered charity 311697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHAFTESBURY HOMES AND ARETHUSA, SHAFTESBURY YOUNG PEOPLE, SYP Trust

SYP Trust provides grants and support to small organisations working to transform the lives of children and young people in London by helping them to learn, be healthy, be heard, and be active citizens. We support work to remove the barriers and challenges many young people face when working towards these goals and which contribute to the widening inequality in our society.

Objects

TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED OR IN CARE IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING BY: HELPING THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN DECISION MAKING AND TO HAVING THEIR VIEW HEARD; HELPING THEM TO LEARN AND TAKE PART IN A WIDE RANGE OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES; HELPING THEM TO BE HEALTHY; HELPING THEM TO STAY SAFE; HELPING THEM TO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY; AND HELPING THEM TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £8,965,301, supported by a significant £768,596 gain on investment revaluations. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00081186

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.

• VASSELL-AHIAKU, Danielle Natalie — director, appointed 05/12/2023on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Trisha — director, appointed 05/12/2023on trustee list
• IRVING, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• BOOTH, Georgia — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• SEARLE, Clare Louise — director, appointed 27/04/2017on trustee list
• BLACK, Roger John — director, appointed 15/12/2016on trustee list
• BANCROFT, Elliot Mark — director, appointed 10/09/2015on 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); recorded price paid £121k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Searlechair
• Danielle Natalie Vassell-Ahiaku
• Elliot Mark Bancroft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Georgia Booth
• Roger Black · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Irving · trustee of 1 other charity
• Trisha Thompson

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STREATHAM YOUTH AND COMMUNITY TRUST.

• STREATHAM YOUTH AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £501k
• SOUTHWATER YOUTH PROJECT income £96k
• SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT income £4.4m
• SOUTH BRISTOL CONSORTIUM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £626k
• THE SYDNEY BLACK CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £70k
• SALISBURY HOUSE income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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