Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 16

YOUTH CONNECT SOUTH WEST

Working with young people, offering positive activities, including youth work, group work and targeted individual support. Support for young people who are unemployed and @risk of unemployment with next steps to employment, education or training, particularly young people with anxiety and mental health needs, SEND YP (disabilities) with transitions working in partnerships with parent/carers

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
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

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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	£1,824	£1,858	£-34	£0	£658	£569	3.7	65	12
31/03/22	£1,517	£1,312	£205	£0	£692	£519	4.8	52	3
31/03/21	£1,168	£824	£344	£0	£487	£292	4.2	41	6
31/03/20	£410	£267	£143	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 37%
Liabilities/Income: 21%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.3

Asset Split ?

Established: 5 years

www.youthconnectsouthwest.org.uk

contact@ycsw.org.uk

01225396980

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Bath And North East Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset, Wiltshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

65 employees
12 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

Quartet Community Foundation	£35,536
DCMS	£9,968
National Lottery Community Fund	£8,830
Co-Operative Group	£1,083

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH Summer and holiday fun
£8,830	11/08/2023	The funding will be used to provide activities for young people through the school holidays. The project aims to reduce antisocial behaviour by ensuring young people have a safe space to enjoy fun ....more The funding will be used to provide activities for young people through the school holidays. The project aims to reduce antisocial behaviour by ensuring young people have a safe space to enjoy fun activities with friends.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Youth Connect South West
£5,000	27/07/2023	To develop a program of workshops and activities primarily targeted at young Black and Ethnic minority young people
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Youth Connect South West
£4,680	14/07/2022	Provide a weekly drop in sessions in central Bath, where young people will be able to meet youth workers in a safe and friendly environment.
Quartet Community Foundation - Street sports workshops
£1,500	29/06/2022	To run street sports in parks, with young people who are at risk of crime and at risk of being involved with anti-social behaviour.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Youth Connect South West
£3,630	13/04/2022	For a lunch club for older people, a parent and toddler group and community activities at the Southside Youth Hub.
Quartet Community Foundation - Radstock Jubilee Festival
£9,000	30/03/2022 2	For Radstock Jubilee Festival, an outdoor arts event.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Youth Connect South West
£1,083	23/10/2021	We would like to inspire our community with projects for local people, such as food support, family and children groups, and support for older people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Summer and Autumn kayaking
£2,000	25/06/2021	To provide regular kayaking sessions to young people in the heart of Bath on the river Avon where they will have fun and learn new skills.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grow it cook it!
£4,976	22/12/2020	For the 'Grow it cook it!' project that will work with the local community to support the provision of low cost, good quality local food and encourage local people to grow and cook their own food.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,968	07/08/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Youth Connect South West
£4,750	27/04/2020	To provide vulnerable families and young people with food and other essentials to support them during the Covid -19 pandemic, to provide young people with ways of communicating digitally.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-73

DEE CHADDA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Local Government Officer

MARK ANVER BANDALLI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Management Consultant

REBECCA ELISE WALKER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Youth Worker

CHARLES DANIEL GERRISH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

GILLIAN MILLAR Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Youth Work Consultant

JACKIE FIELDER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Community Advice And Information Manager

REV ADAM PITT (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Vicar

TRACEY LOUISE PIKE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Manager, Other trusteeship: BATHEASTON YOUTH CLUB,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/10/2019, number: 1186059
Registered at Companies House on 18/04/2019, number: 11953689

Gift Aid

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
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

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

Youth Connect South West
Kelston View
Whiteway
Bath
BA1 1NR

Objectives

1. TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) 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;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.2. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.2.2 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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