Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 14
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 25 ?

CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK 

Opportunities, courses and activities for young people with a focus on excellence in the arts and those most disadvantaged in our society. Maintenance and provision of buildings for youth and other community activities.Provision of Youth Services
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
Established: 50 years

www.creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk

info@creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk

01179477948

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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
31/12/22£4,963£4,150£813£0£14,598£6,49418.81275
31/12/21£4,504£4,237£267£0£13,785£6,43618.29235
31/12/20£4,344£4,232£112£123£13,519£6,23617.712250
31/12/19£4,513£4,291£222£0£13,407£6,04916.912880
31/12/18£3,734£3,475£258£59£9,255£2,5138.710951
31/12/17£2,234£2,175£59£45£8,790£2,15611.9800
31/12/16£1,908£1,867£41£42£8,731£2,06113.2700
31/12/15£2,185£1,969£215£57£8,690£1,98212.1370
31/12/14£2,303£1,763£540£59£8,328£1,85812.6330
31/12/13£1,870£1,563£307£5£7,787£580.4270
31/12/12£4,026£929£3,098£21£8,248£2,99838.7160
31/12/11*£2,806£743£2,063£23£5,151£3,08649.8150
31/12/10£1,299£711£588£9£3,088£3,08852.170
31/12/09£615£571£44£18£2,500£2,48952.390
31/12/08£534£510£25£44£2,454£2,45057.780
31/12/07£449£498£-49£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£314£376£-62£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£294£265£29£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£279£262£17£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 25%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 44%
Reserves/Spending: 18.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 127 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
National Lottery Community Fund£484,071
Garfield Weston Foundation£250,000
Youth Music£179,353
Esmee Fairbairn£155,637
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£143,000
BBC Children in Need£79,831
The Foyle Foundation£74,900
Tudor Trust£72,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£74,900 28/11/2023
towards equipping a redeveloped courtroom for performances, exhibitions and other cultural activities, in particular increasing access and opportunities for young creatives
National Lottery Community Fund - The Station: a destination for young people and creativity
£484,071 30/08/2023
This funding will support work targeting disadvantaged young people in Bristol. The project aims to improve young people's wellbeing through creative activities.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£5,000 11/04/2023
Re-opening The Batch youth club in Cadbury Heath
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£7,411 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£4,684 25/01/2023
Careers – a place-based programme to support young people who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) into education, employment or training opportunities
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - We the 33% Youth Voice Programme
£3,000 18/01/2023
Creative Youth Network (CYN) works across four open access youth centres in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North East Somerset. They build relationships with young people from all backgrounds to ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£30,000 25/11/2022
'The Courts' - capital project to create a creative place for young disadvantaged people
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£1,000 23/11/2022
As directed by the donor towards CYN's matched funding challenge - Big Give Christmas Challenge. CYN intend to raise £15k and have already secured £7,500 of it. The £15,000 will be invested ....more
Youth Music - Nimbus Sounds
£149,958 13/10/2022
Nimbus Sounds
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£235,000 26/08/2022
Redeveloping Bristol's Old Magistrates Courts into a creative industries hub for young people
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£300 28/09/2021
As requested by the High Sheriff towards a group trip for young people at the Dings Youth Centre
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - We the 33% Youth Voice Programme
£60,000 06/09/2021
24
Creative Youth Network (CYN) works across four open access youth centres in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North East Somerset. They build relationships with young people from all backgrounds to ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£250 05/02/2021
As requested by the donor toward supporting young people in Bristol
Tudor Trust - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£2,000 04/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£148,226 03/12/2020
24
Towards core costs to support work combining creativity and youth services, identifying how this impacts on the lives of disadvantaged young people, and creating and disseminating a replicable model.
Quartet Community Foundation - IT to engage young people isolated by living in digital poverty
£2,702 01/10/2020
To provide computer equipment to help a group of young people isolated by the Covid-19 lockdown to re-engage with their education, training and employment opportunities with support from CYN youth ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£15,000 25/09/2020
Redeveloping Bristol's Old Magistrates Courts into a creative industries hub for young people
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 05/08/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£79,831 30/07/2020
Covid19 - This grant will deliver employability training and opportunities for young people who are experiencing increased marginalisation due to Covid-19, and help improve their wellbeing, provide ....more
Youth Music - Music Youth Work
£29,395 01/07/2020
Music Youth Work
Comic Relief - Creative Youth Network Recovery Funding
£40,000 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
Quartet Community Foundation - Wellbeing Workshops
£7,500 18/02/2020
11
To pilot early intervention and support for low-level mental health needs of young people through targeted small group work with Wellbeing Practitioners (WPs) to reduce strain on oversubscribed ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£70,000 21/10/2019
12
towards refurbishing and equipping a derelict magistrates’ court in Bristol to develop a hub to support disadvantaged young people into the creative industries
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Amplifying young people’s voices to drive positive social change
£60,000 13/05/2019
24
To establish a group of youth advocates with experience of disadvantage, support them to act as changemakers in policy and practice and share learning with the sector.
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£124,948 01/04/2019
.
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£124,948 01/04/2019
.
Quartet Community Foundation - Support for extremely vulnerable young people in Bristol
£10,000 31/07/2018
11
A contribution toward Creative Youth Network's work supporting young care leavers.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£91,822 27/06/2018
36
This project will deliver creative and sports based holiday activities as well as school transition courses for children from low income families. The project will increase self-confidence, positive ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - South Gloucestershire Youth Partnership
£309,673 28/03/2018
36
South Gloucestershire Youth Partnership
Quartet Community Foundation - In-house Production 2018
£2,500 27/02/2018
8
To involve 45 young people in the creation of a large-scale theatre production.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£4,557,800 12/12/2017
Bristol's Victorian Magistrates Court regeneration project
Comic Relief - Creative Changers
£62,412 27/09/2017
36
Young people facing disadvantages in Bristol will create youth social action projects that reflect youth issues and opinions. They will use different creative art forms to communicate complex issues ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£124,948 01/06/2017
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DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£124,948 01/06/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£124,948 01/06/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£93,711 01/06/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
DCMS - Youth Investment Fund
£93,711 01/06/2017
The Youth Investment Fund aims to expand, create and strengthen the sustainability of open-access youth services in six disadvantaged regions in the country. It will also expand the evidence base of ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£12,000 10/05/2017
Rights to Move
Quartet Community Foundation - In-house Christmas production 2017
£2,500 06/02/2017
4
Toward the Christmas 2017 in-house production which provides young people interested in a career in theatre experience of working with and alongside theatre professionals.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£32,000 19/10/2016
Third year of a grant agreed by the Henry Smith Charity towards the cost of the Programme Director at a project developing arts based projects for young people.
Quartet Community Foundation - Emergency Support for young people affected by Kids Company Closure
£10,000 07/09/2016
7
To help transform the flagship youth hub, The Station so that it can respond to growing numbers of young people requiring urgent support.
Dulverton Trust - Exceptionally Vulnerable NEETs at The Station
£60,000 11/02/2016
Exceptionally Vulnerable NEETs at The Station
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£96,000 11/09/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Programme Director at a project that delivers education and support to disadvantaged young people in Bristol through arts-based ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Dick Whittington effect - unlocking potential in young people in the Ci
£270,957 11/02/2013
36
This new project will reach out to disadvantaged and NEET young people in Bristol City Centre, giving them opportunities to develop work-based skills to get them back into work, education or ....more
Dulverton Trust - 'Arts 4 Life' at the new venue in Bristol
£15,000 15/02/2012
'Arts 4 Life' at the new venue in Bristol
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Creative Youth Network
£60,000 05/05/2011
Towards the core costs of the Youth 4 Youth project.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-61
  • AKILAH WALTON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Customer Involvement Manager
  • KATHERINE WARD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Arts Consultant And Producer
  • ROBERT NYE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Wealth Management
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/11/1973, number: 266318
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/03/1973, number: 01099684
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR11: 1 days late,
Main office

20 OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
THE KINGSWOOD ESTATE
BRITANNIA ROAD
KINGSWOOD
BRISTOL
BS15 8DB

Objectives

THE RELIEF CARE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN IN NEED. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS. THE FURTHERENCE OF THE MATERIAL PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF ANY CHILD. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREAT BRITAIN

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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