WINSFORD YOUTH AND COMMUNITY FORUM LTD

Registered charity 517406 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINSFORD YOUTH FORUM LIMITED

Winsford Youth &Community Forum is a registered Charity working with and on behalf of children, Young people and adults throughout Winsford and the surrounding area, by providing activities, projects, facilities and services for all, regardless of age and to assist them via community interaction, involvement and development; working in partnership with other organisations and agencies.

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE ACTIVITIES, FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 5-25 (OFTEN BY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS OR AGENCIES)(B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN THE COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: WINSFORD

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing of £4,770 for the year, reducing total funds to £24,190. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves are currently below their policy target of three months' running costs due to increased insurance and building expenses. Despite this, the trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis based on expected future income.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01976247

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.

• ANDERSON, Margaret Ann — director, appointed 20/11/2024on trustee list
• HAMLETT, Lynette — director, appointed 20/11/2024on 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). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynette Hamlett
• MR BOB BARTON
• Margaret Anne Anderson
• Tom Blackmore

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARRINGTON YOUTH ZONE LIMITED.

• WARRINGTON YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £2.3m
• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES income £526k
• MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m
• Framlingham Area Youth Action Partnership income £107k
• BOLTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £336k
• YASEEN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LTD income £578k

Side by side with its peers

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