YMCA NORFOLK
Registered charity 801606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORWICH YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION LIMITED
YMCA Norfolk seeks to meet the needs of vulnerable young people through its supported accommodation, vocational, sports and pastoral care programmes across Norfolk.
Objects
(1) TO UNITE THOSE WHO, REGARDING JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR GOD AND SAVIOUR ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, DESIRE TO BE THE DISCIPLES IN THEIR FAITH AND IN THEIR LIFE AND TO ASSOCIATE THEIR EFFORTS FOR THE EXTENSION OF THIS KINGDOM. (2) TO LEAD PEOPLE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO FULLNESS OF LIFE IN HIM AND (3) TO PROVIDE A WELCOME TO MEMBERS IN A MEETING PLACE WHICH IS THEIRS TO SHARE WHERE FRIENDSHIPS CAN BE MADE AND COUNSEL SOUGHT. (4) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR ACCOMMODATION RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (FOR FURTHER DETAIL SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).
Area of benefit: NORWICH
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a group surplus of £296,253 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus of £658,803 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £1,385,000, which falls within the stated policy target range of £1,040,000 to £1,560,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Pension scheme deficit: £9.1m
“The valuation prepared as at 1 May 2023 showed that the YMCA Pension Plan had a deficit of £9.1 million.” — page 39
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.
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
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 51
- Government income: £1,324,152 — contracts £1,324,152 (9); 18% of the £7,406,370 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 1; £70,001–£80,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 46
- Government income: £717,325 — contracts £717,325 (9); 12% of the £5,975,917 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 75
- Government income: £631,184 — contracts £631,184 (10); 12% of the £5,178,082 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — YMCA Norfolk (matched by registered charity number).
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)
28 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£28k
Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (02/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk
Income and spending
Common questions
Is YMCA NORFOLK financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a group surplus of £296,253 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus of £658,803 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £1,385,000, which falls within the stated policy target range of £1,040,000 to £1,560,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Price Bailey LLP.
Who funds YMCA NORFOLK?
Funders whose own accounts filings name YMCA NORFOLK as a grant recipient include THE GEOFFREY WATLING CHARITY, EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ALDERMAN JOHN NORMAN, HAYS TRAVEL FOUNDATION, HOPESTEAD, THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST.
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).
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