Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 3

MERCREAD YOUTH CENTRE

The object of the CIO is to support and empower children and young people torealise their potential in life, through educative and leisure activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Why are there only 3 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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?		£87	£59	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22?		£20	£21	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£24	£26	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£18	£23	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£19	£21	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£21	£21	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16		£27	£18	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/15		£31	£23	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/14		£38	£39	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/13		£38	£39	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/12		£42	£46	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/11		£58	£48	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/10	*	£42	£49	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/09		£44	£47	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/08		£53	£42	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/07		£45	£44	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06		£46	£32	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05	*	£31	£33	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£38	£38	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 2 years

myriam.mercread@gmail.com

01323892531

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes
Recreation

GiG Classification

Secondary schools

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

East Sussex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Mercread Youth Centre CIO
£9,970	08/03/2024 11	Funding was provided for youth sessions incorporating cooking skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Weekly Youth Club Sessions; Ages 11-14
£9,878	09/06/2023	The funding will be used to provide a safe place for local young people to socialise and engage in positive activities including sports music and cooking. The project aims to brings together young people from different academic years/schools to ....more The funding will be used to provide a safe place for local young people to socialise and engage in positive activities including sports music and cooking. The project aims to brings together young people from different academic years/schools to improve their personal and social development teach them new skills whilst reduce feelings of boredom and isolation.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Mercread Youth Centre
£2,500	16/11/2018 19	Funding was provided to run an anti-homophobia physical activity and educational awareness project.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

CERI ROBLEY Appointed: 2022

GEMMA MCFARLANE Appointed: 2023

REV JOSEPH MICHAEL PADFIELD Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/12/2022, number: 1201236

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR10: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from MERCREAD YOUTH CENTRE (INCORPORATING THE SEAFORD BOYS' CLUB) on 17/04/2023

Main office

MERCREAD YOUTH CENTRE
MERCREAD ROAD
SEAFORD
MERCREAD YOUTH CENTRE
MERCREAD ROAD
BN25 1AB

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE OFSEAFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR RECREATIONAND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE.

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