Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 15
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15

YMCA GEORGE WILLIAMS COMPANY 

... We seek to enhance the practice of those concerned with the development of people's potential as learners and educators. We work towards relationships characterised by openness to learning, change and dialogue. We do this through the provision of educational programmes and activities, research, and association with practitioners and agencies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 29 years

www.ymca.ac.uk

b.mcneil@ymcageorgewilliams.org.uk

0207 046 9400

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/22?£32£72£-40n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/07/21£249£496£-247n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/07/20*£541£1,242£-701£0£1,183£1,15911.2121
31/07/19*£709£1,802£-1,093£0£1,885£1,86312.4241
31/07/18£903£1,772£-870£0£2,978£2,92519.8240
31/07/17£851£1,035£-184£0£3,847£3,84744.6110
31/07/16£1,110£1,357£-247£0£1,536£1,53613.6990
31/07/15£1,382£1,384£-3£20£380£3803.3190
31/07/14*£1,591£1,559£32£19£382£3742.9290
31/07/13£1,359£1,651£-292£20£350£3422.5360
31/07/12£1,672£1,688£-16£21£642£6034.3430
31/07/11£1,767£1,735£33£19£658£6254.3430
31/07/10*£1,612£1,570£42£18£544£4703.6430
31/07/09£1,301£1,280£21£21£512£4534.2270
31/07/08£1,662£1,608£54£1£470£4323.2420
31/07/07£1,463£1,511£-49£8£416£4103.3230
31/07/06£1,556£1,422£133£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/05*£1,454£1,442£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/04£1,403£1,399£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£283,000
Esmee Fairbairn£246,000
National Lottery Community Fund£125,826
Co-Op Foundation£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to YMCA George Williams Company
£180,000 19/07/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation working to strengthen the youth sector by building capacity, leading collaboration and providing accessible resources to improve impact and quality ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building a healthy data ecosystem for the youth sector
£125,826 27/03/2023
This partnership project will support youth work across England by creating a healthy data ecosystem to rapidly increase the impact data available to the sector. This will help people working with ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to YMCA George Williams College
£6,000 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Infrastructure support for quality evaluation in the youth sector
£10,000 18/01/2023
The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective
£3,000 18/01/2023
The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to YMCA George Williams College
£60,000 27/07/2022
Towards project costs for a collective data standard for the youth sector, bringing together for the first time UK Youth, NYA, CYI and seven regional youth work networks to develop a common standard
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Infrastructure support for quality evaluation in the youth sector
£150,000 24/05/2022
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The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Building a healthy data ecosystem for the youth sector
£100,000 24/05/2022
YMCA George Williams College - incorporating The Centre for Youth Impact - is a community of UK organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Data Ecosystem
£100,000 28/04/2022
Contribution to the creation of a 'data ecosystem' for the youth sector.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Maximising young people's voice and power initiative
£20,000 22/02/2022
The Centre for Youth Impact is a community of organisations that work together to progress thinking and practice around impact measurement in youth work and services for young people. This grant ....more
Joseph Rank Trust - YMCA George Williams College
£45,000 23/10/2017
36
To help fund the vocationally supported degree programme in NI
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-66
  • DEVINA PAUL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Finance Director
  • KEITH BENDALL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Marketing Communications Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/03/1995, number: 1044624
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/10/1994, number: 02978406
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR20: 30 days late, AR19: 61 days late, AR14: 11 days late, AR10: 8 days late, AR05: 0 days late,
Main office

YMCA George Williams College
Welken House
10-11 Charterhouse Square
LONDON
EC1M 6EH

Objectives

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1. TO ADVANCE VOCATIONAL, FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING BOTH FOR ADULTS AND YOUNG PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A CENTRE OF LEARNING FOUNDED ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND ADOPTING CHRISTIAN VALUES INITIALLY DERIVED FROM THE PARIS BASIS AND ADOPTED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE WORLD ALLIANCE OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. THE CHARITY WELCOMES, SERVES AND WORKS WITH PERSONS OF ALL RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND OF NONE.3.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN RESPECT OF CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.3.3. THE PROMOTION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, OF THE EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF CHARITIES ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS, THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUPPORT OF CHILDREN OR YOUNG PERSONS, AND THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY YOUTH SECTOR, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:I. LIAISING BETWEEN CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER GROUPS ON RELEVANT ISSUES;II. PROVIDING TRAINING, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ON RELEVANT SUBJECTS;III. IDENTIFYING NEEDS IN THE VOLUNTARY YOUTH SECTOR AND ESTABLISHING PROJECTS OR POLICIES TO ADDRESS THEM;IV. PROVIDING RELEVANT INFORMATION TO THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC ON THE OPERATION OF, OR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY, THE VOLUNTARY YOUTH SECTOR; ANDV. ACTING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VOLUNTARY YOUTH SECTOR IN RELATION TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND LEGISLATION. THE DEFINITION OF ‘VOLUNTARY’ IS INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.”

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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