Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 12
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

ACTION 4 YOUTH

The objects of charity are to help and educate children and young people, through informal education and leisure time activities to develop their physical, mental and spiritual, moral and cultural capabilities, to achieve their full potential, that they may grow up to full maturity, as responsible individuals and members of their communities and society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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
31/03/24£2,756£2,569£187£81£1,152£7893.7601
31/03/23£2,138£2,073£64£90£964£7664.4642
31/03/22£1,618£1,602£15£82£909£7395.5374
31/03/21£1,083£1,071£12£0£882£7057.9252
31/03/20?£2,024£2,003£20£0£871£6784.14121
31/03/18£1,600£1,589£11£0£772£5163.9380
31/03/17£1,390£1,506£-117£0£760£5074390
31/03/16£1,209£1,256£-47£3£942£3813.6320
31/03/15£1,379£1,182£198£53£914£3853.9310
31/03/14£1,038£1,081£-42£45£717£4034.5270
31/03/13£1,166£903£263£73£759£4095.4300
31/03/12£372£368£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£484£571£-87n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£370£362£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£405£408£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£403£379£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£456£249£207n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£159£151£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£135£143£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£135£143£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 36%
Liabilities/Income: 24%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 68%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 31 years

www.action4youth.org

office@action4youth.org

0300 003 2334

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

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
The Clothworkers Foundation£100,000
Rothschild Foundation£50,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
DCMS£23,960
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Breakout
£15,000 12/06/2024
Breakout
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Action4Youth
£19,000 21/12/2023
Breakout - intervention program for at risk youth
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Action4Youth
£100,000 28/11/2023
Refurbishment of an education centre for a charity which works with disadvantaged and disabled young people in Buckinghamshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Addressing food poverty at our youth centre The Junction
£9,360 22/07/2022
The funding will be used to provide hot food and cooking sessions for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project aims to ensure that people who are most vulnerable can access their basic life needs and support their wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Action4Youth Health and Wellbeing Programme
£8,934 18/06/2021
The funding will be used to deliver sessions focusing on mental and physical welfare for children from years 5 to 13 across deprived areas of Buckinghamshire. The project aims to reduce anxiety in young people and give them the tools to manage ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 11/06/2021
Recovery & resilience: Help us to improve opportunities for all young people and transform lives post-pandemic
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£8,000 29/04/2021
2
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Action 4 Youth
£50,000 24/09/2020
6
Support to Action 4 Youth’s staff costs for the next 6 months to stabilise the core operating function of Buckinghamshire’s leading youth charity.
DCMS - Youth Covid Support Fund 2021
£23,960 01/04/2020
To ensure young people have uninterrupted access to Youth services, preventing their closure
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Action4Youth
£10,000 11/10/2019
11
The Inspiration Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Action4Youth Sector Conference
£4,600 24/07/2019
12
The project will use funding to host a conference to address specific challenges being faced by young people and bring different stakeholders together to look at ways to improve provision and to share learning.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Action4Youth
£7,500 20/07/2018
10
The Inspiration Programme: Preparing young people for life ahead
National Lottery Community Fund - Inspiration Programme
£5,776 14/06/2018
12
The project aims to educate young people with self-confidence, resilience and practical life skills in preparation for employment opportunities. This will be achieved through a personal development course in work-readiness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Sector Conference
£4,224 06/09/2017
12
This project will bring together youth organisations to improve collaborative working, infrastructure and services for young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 24/07/2017
The Inspiration Programme
Sport England - Xperience Disability Sailing School
£10,000 22/05/2017
12
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Xperience Disability Sailing School'. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - Xperience Disability Sailing School
£10,000 22/05/2017
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Xperience Disability Sailing School. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - LongriggRural Mobile Training Project
£10,000 22/04/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to purchase a trailer and outdoor activities equipment, to enable them to create a ‘mobile training project’ for the benefit of young people in Sedbergh, Cumbria. This will help the organisation ....more
Sport England - Get Equipped Yachting project
£10,000 06/02/2014
Funding under Sport England's Get Equipped funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get Equipped Yachting project'. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - Caldecotte Xperience - Water Sports Centre
£50,000 20/08/2013
Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Caldecotte Xperience - Water Sports Centre'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This funding has contributed towards a Changing ....more
Sport England - Longrigg Canoe
£5,982 06/06/2013
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Longrigg Canoe'. This project lists its main activity as Canoeing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 50-64
  • ALASTAIR DOUGLAS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director
  • ANDREW PETERS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Self-Employed
  • CAMILLA ROSE SOAMES Appointed: 2017, Occupation: None
  • DAVID APPERLY Appointed: 2023
  • DAVID KNOX Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive
  • DAVID TEASDALE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • GRAEME SHANKLAND Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Managing Partner
  • LOUISE ELDRED Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Actuary
  • NICHOLAS PETERS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Investment Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/02/1994, number: 1033626
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/01/1994, number: 02888960
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 34 days late,
Main office

5 Smeaton Close
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP19 8UN

Objectives

TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, THROUGH INFORMAL EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND CULTURAL CAPACITIES, TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THAT THEY MAY GROW UP TO FULL MATURITY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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