Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

YKIDS LTD 

Ykids works to benefit the lives of children, young people and families living in deprivation in Merseyside. We deliver projects, activities and events to build emotional resilience, develop skills, raise aspirations and bring about community transformation.The charity has a Christian ethos and also works to support churches develop effective, relevant and engaging youth and children's work
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 13 years

www.ykids.co.uk

admin@ykids.co.uk

0151 9442111

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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£500£607£-107n/an/an/an/an/a36
31/08/21£546£507£39£7£553£1463.42020
31/08/20£441£400£42n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/08/19£453£463£-10n/an/an/an/an/a47
31/08/18£522£365£156£4£483£571.91525
31/08/17£488£318£170£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£412£386£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/15£415£368£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£352£359£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13£430£389£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/12£427£331£96£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 36 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City, Sefton,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£310,000
BBC Children in Need£97,600
Tudor Trust£86,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£81,000
Henry Smith Charity£69,000
Rank Foundation£40,100
DCMS£32,712
National Lottery Heritage Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Bootle Children's Literary Festival
£3,000 10/08/2023
To help fund the Bootle Children's Literary Festival which covers a variety of activities including story writing competitions, class packs for schools, school visits from authors, and book tickets.
National Lottery Community Fund - Ykids Youth Workers
£240,000 25/07/2023
The funding will be used to develop the organisation's current programme offer and ensure that their approach adapts to the emerging challenges facing the families and young people of Bootle. It will ....more
Rank Foundation - CoL Core Grant YKids 2023 - Full
£20,100 27/04/2023
Ykids received a Cost of Living Core Grant to help cover the cost of staff salaries and increased utility bills.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Ykids Clubs
£5,000 15/12/2022
To provide free educational and cultural activities to young people in areas of deprivation including football, sewing, financial literacy, drama, writing, and confidence building.
National Lottery Community Fund - Friday Footy
£10,000 04/03/2022
The funding will be used to deliver football related activities for children and young people in the community including young asylum seekers in need of a safe place to integrate. Participants will ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ykids
£1,000 31/08/2021
This project will provide training and mentoring to a project worker who will deliver money management sessions to disadvantaged children. Children will improve their life skills through developing ....more
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Ykids Ltd
£81,000 23/06/2021
50% of salaries and running costs over 3-years for early intervention support for families in Bootle, Merseyside.
Tudor Trust - Grant to YKids
£2,000 04/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Ykids
£5,000 30/09/2020
Towards new IT equipment
Tudor Trust - Grant to YKids
£84,000 04/08/2020
36
over three years towards the project manager's salary for Kingsley & Co, a new steampunk bookshop & cafe project working to encourage literacy in Bootle
Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund YKids 2020
£20,000 30/06/2020
To support core costs
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ykids
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund laptops and tablets to support online delivery of weekly sessions to young people impacted by poverty and who are isolated at home due to Covid-19. This technology will ....more
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Ykids Lid
£5,000 12/06/2020
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Ykids Lid, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 19/05/2020
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Y-KIDS Resilience
£60,000 11/05/2020
6
A project offering support to vulnerable families and young people through the COVID-19 crisis. Services will include food supplies and household essentials a delivery service for prescriptions and ....more
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£19,808 28/02/2020
After school activities
DCMS - UK Youth Fund YAF
£9,904 28/02/2020
After school activities. The wider aim of the scheme is: To deliver onward grants to increase positive activities for young people by delivering extra sessions in youth clubs for the financial year ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ykids Ltd
£10,000 21/11/2019
Bootle's Horrid History Guide
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ykids
£69,000 26/06/2019
36
towards three years' salary costs of a Christian Youth and Children's Work Manager and the internship and training programme for young people seeking to be trained in a career in Christian ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ykids
£93,600 26/06/2019
36
This project will deliver activities, trips and events for children and young people impacted by poverty and deprivation in Bootle, Liverpool. It will lead to increased emotional resilience, greater ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Ykids Ltd
£60,000 06/12/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Ykids film Club
£10,000 28/06/2018
12
The organisation will deliver filmmaking activities for young people in the local area, with the aim of developing skills and raising aspirations.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 16/05/2018
Ykids Youth and Children's Programme
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ykids
£4,181 29/11/2017
We want to teach children how to be bee-keepers at North Park Community Garden.
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Ykids
£15,000 01/11/2017
Towards family support and training in Bootle
Tudor Trust - Grant to YKids
£100,000 07/10/2016
12
towards the refurbishment of the Orrell Road Library for use as a young people's centre in Bootle
Tudor Trust - Grant to YKids
£90,000 29/01/2016
36
over three years as continuation funding towards salaries and running costs at a youth organisation in Bootle
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Ykids
£124,700 13/03/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Manager at a youth project in a deprived area of Merseyside
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ykids
£21,800 29/07/2013
The organisation delivers a wide range of targeted activities for children and young people in Bootle, a significantly deprived area within Sefton. The aim of the work is to develop skills and self ....more
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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: 31-78
  • DR JAIME CRAIG (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/04/2011, number: 1141530
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/02/2010, number: 07150747
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
11 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ykids
98A Linacre Lane
BOOTLE
Merseyside
L20 6ES

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BYPROVIDING EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL,PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED, FOR THEPUBLIC BENEFIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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