BROOK YOUNG PEOPLE

Registered charity 703015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROOK, BROOK IN LIVERPOOL, BROOK LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE BROOK ADVISORY CENTRE, MERSEYSIDE BROOK CENTRE · also registered in Scotland as SC045788 (OSCR)

Promoting the health, particularly sexual health, of young people and those most vulnerable to sexual ill health, through providing information, education and outreach, counselling, confidential clinical and medical services, professional advice and training

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outflow of funds of £831,056 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £1,654,270 to £823,214. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves sit below the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (£3,079,502), but confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02466940
• Trading subsidiary: BROOK ASPIRE LTD Companies House 14936876

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Brook (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Helen Marshall — Chief Executive (source)
• Dame Sally Dicketts — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) — “The project, which was funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Tampon Tax Fund, has enabled us to engage more …” (source page)
• Durex — “In collaboration with the sexual health charity FPA and funded by Durex, we worked with a group of volunteers aged 15-18 to make sure their …” (source page)

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.

• RATTRAY, Cassie — director, appointed 13/04/2026not on trustee list
• HARPER-JOHN, Tanisha — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• BICKFORD, Mark David — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• EKEOCHA, Samilia, Dr — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• RYAN, Daniel — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• LEO, Kanika Vania Eva — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• THAKRAR, Saloni — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• BEEBY, Peter Francis — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• DICKETTS, Sally Ann Sheila, Dame — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• SOHAL, Sandeep Kaur — director, appointed 23/11/2022on trustee list
• DALY, Clare — director, appointed 09/08/2021on trustee list
• HUTCHINGS, Sarah Louise — secretary, appointed 13/02/2018

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

CQC provider record: Brook Young People — Registered, 31 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 31/10/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Brook Blackburn: Good (16/01/2023) · CQC record
• Brook Bristol: Good (20/12/2019) · CQC record
• Brook Burnley: Good (16/01/2023) · CQC record
• Brook Euston: Good (17/04/2020) · CQC record
• Brook Manchester: Good (08/10/2025) · CQC record
• Brook Cornwall: Good (20/12/2021) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Sally Ann Sheila Dickettschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Daly
• Daniel Ryan
• Dr Samilia Ekeocha
• Kanika Vania Eva Leo
• Mark David Bickford
• Peter Francis Beeby
• Saloni Thakrar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sandeep Kaur Sohal
• Tanisha Harper-John

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 Step 2 Young People's Health.

• Step 2 Young People's Health income £663k
• E P YOUTH LTD income £159k
• THE BROMSGROVE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY HUB income £343k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £805k
• STAFFORDSHIRE COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES income £526k

Side by side with its peers

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