WORCESTERSHIRE YMCA LIMITED

Registered charity 516872 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REDDITCH Y M C A, REDDITCH YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Working from our own accommodation units, community centres, schools and prison, we provide a preschool nursery, management of children's centres, play workers in prison, schools work, youth work including the support of young people towards independent living, 'move on' accommodation and support for vulnerable adults.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported an operating deficit of £292,419 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves to £2,954,660. The trustees and auditors confirm that the group is a going concern with no material uncertainties, despite a pension scheme deficit of £93,194 and a breach of financial covenants on one bank loan.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 28.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lindsay Sartorichair
• Harvinder Khatkar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Braden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Norman Smiglarski · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Gail Rogers · trustee of 5 other charities
• Rev Michael Sermon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert John Pearce · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORCESTER YMCA.

• WORCESTER YMCA income £1.6m
• YMCA NORFOLK income £7.4m
• YMCA Chiltern Group income £31.0m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE YMCA income £534k
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS (INCORPORATED) income £23.0m
• YMCA WOLVERHAMPTON income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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