Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 10
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

YOUTHSCAPE 

A national charity dedicated to improving young people's present and future.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 24 years

www.youthscape.co.uk

hello@youthscape.co.uk

01582877220

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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
31/08/22£1,002£1,013£-11£34£3,215£4505.3175
31/08/21£1,046£1,040£5£27£3,226£4355205
31/08/20£1,207£1,197£9£6£3,221£2542.52035
31/08/19£1,162£1,148£14£4£3,212£1621.71935
31/08/18£1,063£1,065£-2£4£3,200£790.92036
31/08/17£1,021£1,057£-36£0£3,202£730.8180
31/08/16£1,145£791£354£13£3,237£941.4150
31/08/15£2,437£752£1,685£42£2,883£1211.9180
31/08/14£1,803£771£1,032£44£1,175£701.1190
31/08/13£684£710£-26£39£143£140.2180
31/08/12£660£584£76£40£138£170.3160
31/08/11£539£633£-94£27£61£611.2190
31/08/10£669£564£105£16£155£1553.3170
31/08/09£409£392£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/08£443£491£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/07£564£502£62£502£80£50.1150
31/08/06*£300£295£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/05£217£216£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/04£192£185£7£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 40%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 14%
Reserves/Spending: 5.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Religious Activities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 5 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£126,742
The Aim Foundation£105,000
BBC Children in Need£104,457
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£42,300
Joseph Rank Trust£37,500
National Lottery Community Fund£18,640
DCMS£12,359
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Joseph Rank Trust - Youthscape
£37,500 14/07/2023
To fund the core costs of the charity
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Youthscape
£4,109 22/10/2022
We would like to provide young people with new activities to participate in whilst they are at our drop-in session at Bute Mills. This will help with their mental health and wellbeing.
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Youthscape
£105,000 19/07/2022
The AIM Foundation has previously made a three year grant towards Youthscape?s work with young people who self-harm - a project we call Alumina. Alumina provides free online therapeutic programmes ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Bute Mills Drop-in
£8,640 24/06/2022
The funding will be used to provide hot meals for secondary school age children three nights a week. The project aims to support people early and bring people together in a shared space also ....more
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to YouthScape
£1,300 29/04/2022
Orbit is a short web based weekday devotional which will be broadcast directly into the online spaces that youth are already using.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Enabling Young People to engage with education where Covid has impacted them.
£50,000 09/02/2022
We will run 6 compass course programmes over the next 2 years (one per term). We would expect 60 young people to have participated in total by the end of the two years. We will also deliver 6 ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£50,000 08/10/2021
Core Costs for Youthscape
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Youthscape Ltd
£40,000 25/03/2021
23
Sustainable Future for Youth-work
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Youthscape
£99,498 18/12/2020
The project will deliver activities and support to children and young people in situations of poverty and with poor mental health in Luton. The aim is to enable them to manage their feelings and ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Thrive Programme
£7,400 23/09/2020
5
Grant to Youthscape Ltd
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£7,400 23/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Youthscape
£42,300 28/07/2020
COVID19 Youthscape
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Youthscape
£4,959 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant is for staffing and activities. It will benefit young people who self harm, and are currently in lockdown due to Covid-19. The aim is to reduce self harm behaviours, build self ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,959 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Both Streams 1 & 2 - Delivery or Support & Core Costs
£12,948 15/05/2020
2
Grant to Youthscape Ltd
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 1 - Delivery or Support Costs
£7,500 03/04/2020
3
Grant to Youthscape Ltd
National Lottery Community Fund - Drop In Dinners
£10,000 10/02/2020
12
The funding will be used to provide children and young people of various faiths, cultures and backgrounds with the opportunity to come together and share a healthy meal after school, as well as ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Youthscape Ltd
£8,894 26/06/2019
17
'Created' art course, and 'Hope' groups (community wellbeing programmes)
The Aim Foundation - Grant to Youthscape
£75,000 24/04/2019
36
A new 3 year grant towards costs of the Alumina live online service for young peole seeking help about self-harming. The programme helps them reduce or stop harming by giving them strategies for ....more
Co-Op Foundation - Youthscape - #iwill Co-research Challenge
£9,419 12/04/2019
Young researchers will compare two social action projects to understand how young people in Luton respond to different types of social action and how it impacts their feelings of loneliness.
Co-Op Foundation - #OpenHouse
£70,000 29/11/2018
Bringing together disadvantaged young people to learn how to cook and help them to organise a community cooking event that builds connections with local people.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Youthscape
£9,690 22/11/2018
12
The project will deliver workshops and residential activities for young people at risk of exclusion. The project will improve emotional wellbeing, improve engagement in education and build confidence.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bute Mills Drop In
£10,000 15/11/2018
12
The funding will be used to continue running a variety of activities, workshops and volunteering opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people at the group's Bute Mills drop-in project. ....more
Comic Relief - Youthscape Sustainability Fund
£48,000 25/07/2018
6
We will support a nine month pilot of a ‘Centre for Innovation’ at Youthscape, to test if this can accelerate their capacity to create innovative new tools for their work with young people. 3 ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Youthscape Ltd
£8,000 20/07/2018
12
Bute Mills 'Drop In'
Co-Op Foundation - Openhouse
£35,000 16/11/2017
Bringing disadvantaged young people from Luton together, to learn how to cook and showcase their new skills by cooking for their local community.
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Compass
£7,500 27/06/2017
10
Grant to Youthscape Ltd
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Youthscape
£118,623 14/06/2017
36
The project will provide mentoring and group support activities for young people who are self harming. The project will reduce harmful behaviour, build self-esteem and develop coping strategies.
National Lottery Community Fund - Bute Mills Young People's Project
£9,749 31/05/2017
12
The funding will be used by a charity to purchase bespoke tables and seating to allow them to expand their drop in social and support services for young people with acute social and emotional issues.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000 10/05/2017
Youthscape
National Lottery Community Fund - selfharmUK
£496,490 27/01/2016
36
The England-wide project will provide a programme of clear information, advice and support to young people at risk or already self-harming to help prevent them from harming and work through the ....more
Comic Relief - Alumina in Schools - a new approach to online support for teenagers who self-harm
£80,854 25/11/2015
24
More than 13% of young people self-harm before the age of 16 – the number is growing and there is little support available. A grant will enable Youthscape to run a project enabling young people to ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Youthscape Ltd
£60,000 05/11/2015
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the salary of the assistant director at a charity offering support to young people in Luton
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Youthscape
£34,300 25/06/2015
Bute Mills Young People's Heritage Project
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Youthscape
£103,600 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support, activities and mentoring to young people who are at risk of becoming NEET in a deprived area of Bedfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Selfharm.co.uk
£277,905 15/03/2012
36
This is a development of an existing project which provides online support, networking and resources for young people who self-harm. It will continue to deliver online provision which allows young ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-58
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/07/2000, number: 1081754
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/03/2000, number: 03939801
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR06: 253 days late,
Main office

Youthscape
74 BUTE STREET
LUTON
LU1 2EY

Objectives

(I) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(II) RELIEVING POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, COUNSELLING, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT;(III) ADVANCING EDUCATION BY PROVIDING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND BY PROVIDING RESOURCES, TRAINING AND ADVICE TO THOSE WORKING WITH THEM; AND(IV) ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY HELPING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO DEVELOP SPIRITUALLY, SOCIALLY , EMOTIONALLY AND IN THEIR EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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