Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 14

YOUTH WORK UNIT - (YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER) CIO

The YWU - Y&H is a support and development regional infrastructure body focussed on youth voice and works with statutory, independent and voluntary sector providers

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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		£217	£223	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£239	£179	£60	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21		£138	£102	£36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/03/20		£118	£110	£8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/19		£73	£63	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/18		£68	£60	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£19	£38	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£42	£55	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£40	£72	£-32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£45	£85	£-39	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£86	£82	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£93	£183	£-90	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£166	£150	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£216	£184	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£228	£206	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£192	£193	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£203	£192	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£307	£326	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£246	£251	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£261	£160	£101	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

www.youthworkunit.com

theunit@youthworkunit.com

07731386046

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 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

Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£144,000
Co-Op Foundation	£60,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,975

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - Organisational Funding
£60,000	28/04/2023	Unrestricted funding - organisation supports nine youth sector worker networks and youth voice social action groups
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective
£4,000	18/01/2023	Youth Work Unit (YWU) is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. It is the focal point for the youth work sector in the region and has a unique role in ....more Youth Work Unit (YWU) is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. It is the focal point for the youth work sector in the region and has a unique role in bringing together the dual functions of support and development. This grant provides core support for YWU, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.
National Lottery Community Fund - Y&H LGBTQI+ Youth
£9,975	18/11/2022	This funding will used to provide support workshops in person and online for young people from the LGBTQ+ community. The project aims to provide a safe space for the young people to share lived ....more This funding will used to provide support workshops in person and online for young people from the LGBTQ+ community. The project aims to provide a safe space for the young people to share lived experiences create community relationships improved confidence and improve mental health and wellbeing.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective
£80,000	19/07/2021	Youth Work Unit (YWU) is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. It is the focal point for the youth work sector in the region and has a unique role in ....more Youth Work Unit (YWU) is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. It is the focal point for the youth work sector in the region and has a unique role in bringing together the dual functions of support and development. This grant provides core support for YWU, enabling the organisation to engage in collaboration focused on delivering infrastructure functions across the youth sector as part of the Youth Sector Infrastructure Collective.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing regional infrastructure support for youth work
£60,000	16/03/2020	The Youth Work Unit is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. This grant will help enhance the development of infrastructure support for youth work across ....more The Youth Work Unit is the strategic youth work development agency for the Yorkshire and Humber region. This grant will help enhance the development of infrastructure support for youth work across England, bringing regional networks together to work collectively, ensure representation and influence change.
National Lottery Community Fund - Caring Across Borders
£9,500	09/08/2017 12	The group will deliver activities for cared for children. This will provide them with opportunities to meet those in a similar situation, to discuss issues that matter to them whilst socialising, ....more The group will deliver activities for cared for children. This will provide them with opportunities to meet those in a similar situation, to discuss issues that matter to them whilst socialising, with the aim of reducing social isolation.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-70

CHLOE THWAITES Appointed: 2023

PETRA SALISBURY Appointed: 2022

CAROL ANNE STONE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Retired

CHRISTINE SMITH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Senior Lecturer

DAVID IAN SHARP Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Chief Executive

DEBBIE BURTON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Local Government Officer

GRAHAM GRIFFITHS GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Programme Leader

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/04/2003, number: 1096951

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
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; AR06: 4 days late, AR05: 64 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

Youth Work Unit Yorkshire & the Humber CIO
15 Priory Street
York
YO1 6ET

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO PROMOTE CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO:A) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS WHO WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND OTHER EVENTS.B) PROMOTE AND SHARE BEST PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF YOUTH WORK INCLUDING THE CO-ORDINATION OF WORK ON QUALITY STANDARDS.C) WORK WITH OTHER AGENCIES INCLUDING REGIONAL AND NATIONAL BODIES TO IMPROVE SERVICES AND IMAGE OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER REGION

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