Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

YOUTH ACCESS

Youth Access is the national membership organisation for young people's information, advice, counselling and support services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £1,093,289 available, equivalent to 24 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending is declining

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£993£537£456£17£1,094£1,09324.570
31/03/22£596£585£11£28£638£59712.270
31/03/21£1,047£963£84£5£627£5867.370
31/03/20£1,050£1,056£-6£0£543£5426.270
31/03/19£703£703£0£0£550£5439.370
31/03/18£755£695£60£0£549£519950
31/03/17£477£509£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£706£729£-23£0£521£4407.240
31/03/15£622£614£9£3£544£4328.540
31/03/14*£826£652£175£3£535£4137.650
31/03/13£376£329£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£354£314£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£551£564£-13£35£329£3046.550
31/03/10£688£633£55£29£342£264590
31/03/09£686£591£95£26£287£2094.3100
31/03/08£573£488£85£28£192£1243100
31/03/07*£538£488£49£26£107£681.780
31/03/06£475£459£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£331£389£-58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£421£496£-75n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 15%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 24.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 24 months
Quick Ratio: 6.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 30 years

www.youthaccess.org.uk

admin@youthaccess.org.uk

02087729900

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£501,449
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£357,200
Prudence Trust£100,000
The Blagrave Trust£90,000
The Aim Foundation£75,000
Esmee Fairbairn£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Backbone grants 2022-23 supporting a thriving civil society
£170,000 06/12/2022
Youth Access is the national membership organisation for Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). Their mission is to ensure all young people can access free support on their ....more
Prudence Trust - Core costs - Youth Access 2022
£100,000 24/11/2022
Core costs
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Youth Access
£75,000 08/10/2021
Contribution to communications and membership officer
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Core support for Youth Access and members
£50,000 12/07/2021
Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing more racially responsive services
£9,867 07/05/2021
The funding will be used to deliver training courses for community organisations. The project aims to support groups in making their services more accessible to people from black and ethnic minority ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Access strategic consultancy
£7,200 27/01/2021
Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). This grant enables strategic consultancy support to the organisation ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Our Minds, Our Future: Supporting Youth Rights Advocates for Mental Health with diverse training
£45,000 18/01/2021
Youth Access is a representative body that champions young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant will go towards ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Core delivery 2
£90,000 08/07/2020
Core funding in support of their policy work around YIACS provision nationwide. 
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Youth Access
£40,000 26/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 03/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
DCMS - Youth Access 19/20
£501,449 01/04/2020
To tackle rising mental health need amongst young women aged 16-25 by increasing access to high quality, gender-informed, young person-centred services in local communities, including targeted access ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Participation practice for sustainable and impactful youth-led change
£60,000 27/03/2020
Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Our Minds, Our Future: Supporting Youth Rights Advocates for Mental Health with diverse training
£5,000 16/03/2020
Youth Access is a representative body that champions young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant will go towards ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Altogether Better: developing young person-centred mental health servi
£1,437,798 15/03/2019
60
The funding will enable Youth Access to bring young people, VCS providers and those working in the statutory mental health system together to co-design more effective ways to ensure young people can ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Our Minds, Our Future: Supporting Youth Rights Advocates for Mental Health with diverse training
£100,000 21/11/2018
24
Youth Access is a representative body that champions young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant will go towards ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Strengthening the Youth Access network across the UK
£40,000 18/06/2018
12
The Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) model supports young people to address a range of interrelated social, legal, practical, emotional and mental health needs in a ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Testing new methods of engagement and strengthening core functions
£60,000 26/02/2018
24
Youth Access is the representative body for a UK wide network of 187 Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services. Through this grant, the organisation will test new methods of engagement with ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Core delivery
£90,000 21/11/2017
Youth Advocacy and Rights
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Youth Access
£598,745 11/02/2016
36
Towards the Make Our Rights Reality national partnership programme, that will improve young people’s understanding of their rights and support youth-led rights-related social action campaigns.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Youth Access
£80,000 22/02/2012
Towards improving young people's access to social welfare advice, developing and disseminating new commissioning guidance and supporting replication of good practice across the country.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 32-57
  • CHARLES LUKE TAYLOR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Civil Servant (Policy Director)
  • CHARLES THOMAS MARTIN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Company Chief Executive
  • CHARLOTTE LIANE DOBSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Education & Engagement Officer
  • DANIEL MOBBS (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • JOHN PARKIN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Innovation And Business Development Manager
  • OLESSIA WILLYBIRO Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Finance And Strategy Executive
  • ROSALIND ARSCOTT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Service For Wellbeing And Participation
  • SALLY BENTON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director Of Policy
  • VIMBAI DZIMWASHA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/11/1994, number: 1042121
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/09/1994, number: 02967126
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR14: 12 days late, AR07: 20 days late, AR04: 39 days late,
Main office

Youth Access c/o Tudor John
Nightingale House
46-48 East Street
EPSOM
Surrey
KT17 1HQ

Objectives

(1) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR COUNSELLORS WORKING IN EITHER PROFESSIONAL OR VOLUNTARY SETTINGS WHETHER FULL OR PART TIME WITH A VIEW TO RAISING THE STANDARDS OF ADVICE AND COUNSELLING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR OF THOSE YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF COUNSELLING (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PART THAT COUNSELLORS CAN PLAY GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THOSE YOUNG MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS IMPAIRED BY MENTAL PHYSICAL OR SOCIAL HANDICAP OR DISABILITY (3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PERSONS IN LONDON AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHO THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED AND UNABLE TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT OR WHO WISH TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (4) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR THOSE WHO ARE IMPAIRED BY MENTAL, PHYSICAL OR SOCIAL HANDICAP OR DISABILITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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