NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS
Registered charity 803431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
The principal activity of the Charity is the helping and educating young people especially, but not exclusively, through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities in order that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved.
Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated an operating profit of £763,336 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £8,393,499. However, the net reserves held after accounting for restricted and fixed asset funds were overdrawn by £2,518,839, a situation the trustees do not view as an issue because the fixed assets represent the centres which create the income for the charity. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: between three and six month's expenditure (held: £4.0m)
“it is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month's expenditure.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Moore. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — NAYC (matched by registered charity number).
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.
- JOHNSON, Richard Peter — director, appointed 18/06/2026on trustee list
- WORTH, Paul Leslie — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
- HADLEY, Alan Leslie — director, appointed 29/08/2024on trustee list
- NICKOLS, James Alexander — director, appointed 24/11/2022on trustee list
- WALKER, Morcea Antoinette — director, appointed 24/11/2022on trustee list
- COLE, Francis Henry, Dr — director, appointed 13/08/2019on trustee list
- SHEARER, David, Rev — director, appointed 18/10/2010not on trustee list
- DARBY, David Edward — directoron trustee list
- WHITTAKER, John Mark — secretary
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 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 · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£6.7m
Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (90% 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: 80.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northamptonshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated an operating profit of £763,336 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £8,393,499. However, the net reserves held after accounting for restricted and fixed asset funds were overdrawn by £2,518,839, a situation the trustees do not view as an issue because the fixed assets represent the centres which create the income for the charity. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore.
Who funds NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS as a grant recipient include LANGLEY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE CONSTANCE TRAVIS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION, DAVID LAING FOUNDATION, THE BENHAM CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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