Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 3

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 2

NORTH AVENUE YOUTH CENTRE

North Avenue Youth Centre is a youth centre in Chelmsford currently operating out of the United Reformed Church, North Avenue, Chelmsford. The centre, mainly but not exclusively, draws young people from the Melbourne estate and surrounding areas. It provides a full range of youth activities and programmes to enable the young people to reach their full potential as individuals.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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 gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£60	£69	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/12/21		£70	£62	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/12/20		£79	£79	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/19		£79	£79	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/12/18		£80	£75	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	6
31/12/17		£50	£44	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£42	£25	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£12	£17	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£30	£28	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£36	£36	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	*	£32	£34	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	*	£28	£34	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£40	£41	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£36	£36	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 2 years

https://northavenueyouthcentre.co.uk/

admin@northavenueyouthcentre.co.uk

01245351022

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Essex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to North Avenue Youth Centre
£10,300	09/03/2023	towards the core costs of a youth centre working with young people at risk of criminal behaviours in Chelmsford
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to North Avenue Youth Centre
£1,500	14/02/2023	to provide an uplift in funding for the core costs of the organisation through the cost-of-living crisis
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to North Avenue Youth Centre
£15,000	03/02/2022	towards the core costs of a youth centre working with young people at risk of criminal behaviours in Chelmsford
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to North Avenue Youth Centre
£15,000	13/04/2021	towards the operational costs of a youth group in the Melbourne area of Chelmsford
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	19/03/2021	Application for Revenue Costs
Essex Community Foundation - North Avenue Youth Centre
£10,000	06/02/2020 11	Towards the operational costs of a youth group in the Melbourne area of Chelmsford
Essex Community Foundation - Core Costs
£12,500	21/03/2019 11	Towards the operational costs of a youth group in the Melbourne area of Chelmsford
Essex Community Foundation - Core Funding for North Avenue Youth Centre
£5,000	07/02/2018 11	Ongoing costs of a youth centre for 8 to 16 year olds in the Melbourne area of Chelmsford
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	28/11/2017	Core costs
Essex Community Foundation - Community awareness and Physical Activities sessions, and Equipment
£5,000	08/05/2017 8	Towards the costs to run additional sessions for two terms at a youth club on the Melbourne Estate in Chelmsford

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

PETER RICHARD BARDWELL (Chair) Appointed: 2021

PROFESSOR GRAHAM HANDSCOMB Appointed: 2022

REBECCA MABEY Appointed: 2021

TREVOR ANDREWS Appointed: 2021

JANE ELIZABETH HUMPHREYS Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: CHRIST CHURCH UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHELMSFORD CHARITY,

JANET BARR CASSELS Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: THE INNER WHEEL CLUB OF CHELMSFORD MILDMAY BENEVOLENT FUND,

MARTIN DENIS SOLDER Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeships: FRENFORD YOUTH CLUB, VISION REDBRIDGE CULTURE AND LEISURE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS, EAST OF ENGLAND AND EAST MIDLANDS REGIONAL YOUTH WORK UNIT,

YVONNE SPENCE Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeships: SPRINGFIELD UNITED CHARITIES, CHELMERS VILLAGE HALL, KIDS INSPIRE,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/12/2021, number: 1197085

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

14 returns made; AR12: 19 days late, AR11: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from NORTH AVENUE YOUTH CENTRE on 15/12/2023

Main office

North Avenue Christian Centre
North Avenue
CHELMSFORD
CM1 2AL

Objectives

TO HELP BOYS AND GIRLS (AGED 8-25) THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED

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