YOUNG ENTERPRISE

Registered charity 313697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q8058100 · Wikipedia

Young Enterprise empowers young people to harness their personal and business skills. We make the connection between school and the world of work, enabling young people to develop the knowledge and attitudes they need to succeed. More than 214,000 young people from across England and Wales have participated in a Young Enterprise learning experience this year supported by around 6,000 volunteers.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IF AND IN SO FAR AS SUCH PURPOSE SHALL BE CHARITABLE AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING AND SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATION AFORESAID, TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE ORGANISATION, METHODS AND PRACTICE OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND IN ALL SUBJECTS RELATED THERETO.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Young Enterprise reported a surplus of £47k for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income increasing by 3.9% to £5,429k. The charity holds free reserves of £1.76m, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of four months' operating expenditure, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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.

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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW MARTIN BADDELEY
• Andrew Bowley
• Andrew James Campbell
• Baroness Amanda Jacqueline Sater
• Carl Stuart Reader
• Claire Jane Thwaites
• Emma Bailey
• Graham Brian Farhall
• John James Sills
• Louise Youngman
• Mina Karshala · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sabreen Samia Ahsan

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Jersey · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME.

• YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME income £640k
• YOUTH EMPOWERMENT MINISTRY income £70k
• YOUTH CONNECT SOUTH WEST income £3.4m
• BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (UK) LTD income £1.9m
• YOUTH AND WOMEN EDUCATION TRUST income £37k
• YOUTH BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

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