HUDDERSFIELD WHARFESIDE YOUTH TRUST

Registered charity 503497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a residential base for young people to help educate through leisure time activities, to develop physical and mental capacities to grow to full mature members of society.Most groups enjoy the opportunity to be able to go exploring and walking in the Yorkshire DalesDuke of Edinburgh groups are supervised at the hostel for the assessing process.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF A RESIDENTIAL BASE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO RESIDE WITHIN THE HUDDERSFIELD COUNTY BOROUGH IN THE COLNE OR HOLME VALLEYS IN LEPTON KIRKBURTON AND KIRKHEATON OR ANY OTHER AREAS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION ALLOW WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: HUDDERSFIELD AND DISTRICT

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

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Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £37,610.21, which exceeds its stated policy target of £5,500 (representing six months of running costs). The charity reported a net surplus of £13,368.19 for the year, funded primarily by booking fees and donations, with no disclosed material uncertainties regarding its financial health.

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 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2022 (received 16/07/2023, 107 days after the 31/03/2023 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 22/05/2022, 52 days after the 31/03/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Howard Wakefieldchair
• ANTHONY JOHN DEARDEN
• DOROTHY BOTTOM
• JOHN TIMOTHY SHAW
• MICHAEL SHAW

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOUNDATION.

• HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k
• HARBOROUGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £162k
• THE FURZEDOWN YOUTH CENTRE LTD income £45k
• THE PERSHORE RIVERSIDE CENTRE income £160k
• WORCESTER YMCA income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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