SHAFTESBURY YOUTH CLUB

Registered charity 520021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHAFTES

Youth club with football teams and training provided during the day for 14-18 year olds

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE BOYS AND GIRLS 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 IMPROVED.

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss for the year of £48,533, primarily due to building a reserve for future 3G pitch resurfacing. Usable unrestricted reserves stood at £52,956, with £5,493 being unrealized, while total net assets were £771,820, including significant fixed assets. The trustees note the charity is asset-rich but has lower cash reserves than desired, with a long-term liability of £1,012,720 related to Football Foundation funding.

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
• 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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEXANDER DAVIES
• ANTHONY PAUL MORRIS
• CORYNNE PEACE
• JOE ROBINSON
• James Anthony Barnes
• KEITH PENNY · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHELLE LANGAN
• RAYMOND GARGAN
• STUART GEORGE BRADY

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

Operates in: Wirral

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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