Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Gender balanced board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +12
    Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

    THE NATIONAL YOUTH AGENCY 

    The National Youth Agency works in partnership with a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations to support and improve services for young people. Our particular focus is on youth work and we believe strongly that by investing in young people's personal and social development, young people are better able to live more active and fulfilling lives.
    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 age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
    Established: 30 years

    http//www.nya.org.uk

    amandaf@nya.org.uk

    01162427350

    Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
    UN SDGs
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    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
    31/03/23£3,787£3,886£-99£0£1,784£1,2473.9480
    31/03/22£2,898£2,771£127£0£1,887£1,2295.3260
    31/03/21£2,877£1,992£885£0£1,756£1,4408.7160
    31/03/20£3,339£3,023£316£0£-4,028£-4,117-16.3260
    31/03/19£4,134£4,116£18£0£-5,411£-5,411-15.8550
    31/03/18*£4,552£4,481£71£0£537£4441.2440
    31/03/17*£4,582£4,529£53£25£-5,375£4661.2480
    31/03/16£6,471£6,587£-116£94£-4,301£-4,336-7.9780
    31/03/15£6,559£6,756£-197£106£-6,608£-6,694-11.9360
    31/03/14£10,386£10,498£-112£42£-5,123£-5,310-6.1440
    31/03/13£7,178£7,174£4£43£-3,845£-3,896-6.5250
    31/03/12£4,827£4,689£138£84£-2,539£-2,855-7.3240
    31/03/11£6,997£6,975£22£39£-837£-1,169-2310
    31/03/10£8,637£8,853£-216£140£-6,033£-6,377-8.6760
    31/03/09£7,456£7,334£122£293£-1,349£-1,636-2.7920
    31/03/08£8,250£8,625£-375£8,608£812£6200.91090
    31/03/07£9,220£9,251£-31£277£402£-312-0.41120
    31/03/06£9,913£9,756£157£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£9,777£9,728£49£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£7,451£7,291£160£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
    Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 19%
    Liabilities/Income: 11%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 70%
    Reserves/Spending: 3.9 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
    Quick Ratio: 3.6
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    Who works here?
    • 48 employees

    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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    DCMS£6,536,175
    National Lottery Community Fund£793,895
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation£136,000
    Co-Op Foundation£35,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Workforce Research
    £23,000 18/12/2023
    The National Youth Agency transforms the lives of young people through the power of youth work. This grant supports The National Youth Agency to focus on better understanding the needs and ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective
    £3,000 18/01/2023
    The National Youth Agency (NYA) aims to transform the lives of young people through youth work. They drive innovative projects that consider new and different approaches and partnerships to ensure ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Routes to Community Success
    £495,155 01/12/2022
    This funding will be used for a community-led approach to local youth service design across England. The project will employ local community leaders and youth ambassadors to involve young people in ....more
    DCMS - The NYA Core Grant
    £1,430,000 23/08/2022
    £3.93m to fund the National Youth Agency (NYA) to deliver their core functions; youth work qualifications, a youth worker and youth services registry and safeguarding support between FY 22/23 - FY ....more
    Dulverton Trust - Amplifi 2022-23
    £30,000 09/02/2022
    Amplifi 2022-23
    DCMS - National Youth Agency Census Grant
    £285,000 01/01/2022
    The purpose of this grant is to support the National Youth Agency to deliver the youth sector census, through part-funding the project and contains 2 elements: Building an online, open access ....more
    Rothschild Foundation - Grant to National Youth Agency
    £2,250 28/09/2021
    National Youth Agency briefing on the Youth Work Curriculum
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective
    £60,000 19/07/2021
    24
    The National Youth Agency (NYA) aims to transform the lives of young people through youth work. They drive innovative projects that consider new and different approaches and partnerships to ensure ....more
    DCMS - Addendum to Youth Work Bursary Grant Renewal
    £90,000 01/04/2021
    The additional £90,000 for the Youth Worker Bursary Fund will aim to enhance the infrastructure capacity in the sector through Internal Quality Assurance and Assessor Training Qualifications (Level ....more
    DCMS - Youth Workforce 21/22
    £1,153,200 01/04/2021
    The overarching strategic goal of this work is to upskill those adults working with young people and support youth sector organisations to ensure safeguarding and quality delivery in community based ....more
    DCMS - Media Literacy Upskilling Youth Workers
    £17,975 01/04/2021
    This grant forms part of the Online Media Literacy Strategy which aims to support the media literacy sector to empower users to be safe online, with a particular focus on vulnerable and hard-to-reach ....more
    DCMS - Youth Worker Bursary Fund
    £300,000 18/12/2020
    To administer financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications
    DCMS - Youth Work qualifications and curriculum
    £1,400,000 25/11/2020
    To ensure the youth worker qualifications and curriculum remain current
    National Lottery Community Fund - Routes to Success
    £298,740 06/08/2020
    6
    National Youth Agency works with the youth sector to develop clear guidance and enable youth work providers to support upskill and to safely deploy youth workers during and after the pandemic. In ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
    £50,000 24/06/2020
    3
    Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
    DCMS - Youth Sector Covid-19 Guidance
    £60,000 20/05/2020
    As a result of the global pandemic, sector specific guidance is required to help youth sector organisations understand how to safely offer services, activities and spaces to young people, in line ....more
    Co-Op Foundation - Back Youth Alliance
    £15,000 04/05/2020
    Joint project between three organisations (NYA, UK Youth, Step up to Serve) to inform DCMS’s proposed 10-year ‘Youth Charter’ and build wider momentum for increased future Government support ....more
    DCMS - Youth Worker Bursary Fund
    £300,000 01/04/2020
    To administer financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications
    DCMS - Youth Worker Bursary Fund
    £585,900 29/10/2019
    To administer around 450 financial bursaries to students undertaking youth work qualifications
    Co-Op Foundation - Youth Charter
    £20,000 29/07/2019
    Joint project to influence DCMS’s proposed 10-year ‘Youth Charter’ and build wider momentum for increased future Government support for the youth sector
    DCMS - Youth Worker qualifications and curriculum renewal
    £914,100 22/07/2019
    To ensure the youth worker qualifications and curriculum remain current
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core suport for NYA as a critical youth sector infrastructure organisation.
    £100,000 10/12/2018
    24
    Core funding to rebuild their work to support professional youth work across England, focusing on quality standards, regional youth work units and influencing government.
    Spirit of 2012 - Fire & Wire
    £7,815 11/01/2018
    Development grant only to support girls to be agents for change in their former coalfield communities. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Lowering Costs, Improving Outcomes by Investing in Youth Work
    £79,923 06/10/2015
    20
    The funding will be used to develop a social impact bond providing neighbourhood outreach programmes in a network of open-access centres to support young people identified as being vulnerable or at ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (12)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split
    Based on 10/12 persons

    Age Range of Trustees: 30-84
    • MARK ALAN CORY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Teacher; Elected Borough And County Councillor
    • MERVYN KAYE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive
    • SALLY CARR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Ceo (Operational Director Lead)
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/03/1994, number: 1035804
    • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/1994, number: 02912597
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • Investing charity funds 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
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late,
    Main office

    National Youth Agency
    9 Newarke Street
    LEICESTER
    LE1 5SN

    Objectives

    TO MAINTAIN AN AGENCY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR AS A CENTRE FOR THE ASSISTANCE IN THE TRAINING OF YOUNG PERSONS SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND IN PARTICULAR BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN MATTERS RELATING TO MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL WELFARE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

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    Data Sources

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