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## **YOUTH CREATE Charity Number: 1040008 Chairman’s Report For the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025**
I am pleased to present the Chairman’s Report for Youth CREATE for the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025. Over the course of the year, the charity has continued to operate in line with its objectives, providing accessible, inclusive, and high-quality performing arts opportunities to children and young people within the local community.
This has been another full and successful year for Youth CREATE, with consistent delivery of weekly classes, rehearsals, productions, and community-focused events. The charity continues to provide a structured and creative environment in which children and young people can develop artistic skills while also building confidence, resilience, communication skills, and teamwork.
A key strength of the organisation remains the quality and ambition of its performance programme. During the year, two productions were staged: In December there was the “YC Christmas Party”, held at Latton Bush Centre followed 6 months later by “Yellow Brick Road and WOLF! The Musical Show” in May 2025 at Bishop Stortford College. Both productions demonstrated a high level of commitment from participants and sta� and were extremely well received by audiences. These events are the culmination of many months of rehearsal and preparation and represent a significant achievement for all involved, they play a valuable role in strengthening community spirit within the organisation and ensuring that every member, regardless of experience or ability, has the opportunity to take part in a shared performance.
In addition, Youth CREATE’s participation in the Jack Petchey Glee Club Challenge was particularly notable, with the organisation reaching the regional finalist stage. This achievement reflects the standard of performance work being produced and the dedication of both members and sta� in preparing for external opportunities and challenges.
Membership has remained strong and stable throughout the year, with approximately 158 participants recorded across all classes as of September 2024. The trustees are pleased to note continued engagement across all age groups, alongside a steady intake of new members. This demonstrates ongoing demand for accessible performing arts provision within the local area and reinforces the importance of maintaining a�ordable access to activities.
sales, fundraising events, and donations. The trustees continue to monitor financial performance closely to ensure long-term sustainability, prudent management of resources, and maintenance of appropriate reserves.
Despite continued economic pressures a�ecting households and organisations, Youth CREATE has maintained resilience and stability throughout the year. The trustees are satisfied that the charity remains well positioned to continue delivering its services e�ectively while adapting to future challenges and opportunities.
Community engagement remains central to the charity’s ethos. The annual “Welcome Back” Picnic continues to be a highly valued event, bringing together members, families, and volunteers at the start of the academic year. It provides both a social and fundraising opportunity, while also reinforcing the sense of belonging that is central to Youth CREATE’s identity. Similarly, participation in the Sawbridgeworth Christmas Lights Switch-On ensures continued visibility and engagement within the wider community.
The trustees are also pleased with continued progress in the development of the charity’s digital infrastructure. The use of online systems for bookings, ticketing, and uniform sales has improved accessibility for families and streamlined administrative processes. Increased engagement through social media platforms has also supported communication, event promotion, and community outreach. The trustees recognise the importance of continuing to invest in these systems to ensure the charity remains e�icient and accessible.
The success of Youth CREATE is dependent on the dedication of its sta�, volunteers, and creative leaders. Their commitment in delivering high-quality weekly sessions, supporting rehearsals, and managing productions is fundamental to the charity’s operation. The trustees would like to formally acknowledge and thank them for their continued professionalism and enthusiasm.
The role of parents, carers, donors, and sponsors is equally essential. Their ongoing support enables children and young people to participate in the charity’s activities regardless of background or financial circumstance. The trustees are extremely grateful for all financial contributions received during the year, which are carefully managed and recorded in the annual accounts.
During the year, we said farewell to Nicola McCormack, who stepped down as trustee. The Board wishes to formally record its sincere appreciation for her commitment, time, and valuable contribution to the governance and development of the charity and extends best wishes for the future.
The current trustees are:
Carl Draper
Vicky Draper
Hugh Linden
Andrea Stamadiades
Katie Wood
Looking ahead, preparations are now underway for the charity’s 40th anniversary. This milestone represents an important opportunity to celebrate the organisation’s history, recognise the contributions of all who have supported it over the years, and rea�irm its ongoing commitment to providing inclusive performing arts opportunities for young people.
During the year, we were delighted to welcome a new addition to the Youth CREATE family. Penny, daughter of Connor and Kelly, was born in June 2025. We extend our warmest congratulations to the family on her safe arrival.
In closing, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all members, sta�, volunteers, trustees, parents, carers, donors, and supporters. The continued success of Youth CREATE is the result of their combined e�orts, and their commitment ensures that the charity remains a valued and sustainable part of the local community.
YOUTH CREATE
Accounts
Year Ended
31 August 2025.
.
**Company Registration No: 2949854 Registered Charity No: 1040008**
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
|Notes
UnrestrictedRestricted
Funds
Funds
£
£
**Incoming Resources**
Grants & Donation
255 3,495
Membership fees
51,712
Fundraising, Production
and other activities
1,320
Bank interest
- -
Total Income Resources
53,087 3,495
**Resources Expended**
Direct Charitable Expenditure
45,448 3,495
Other Expenditure:
Cost of Generating funds
Management and Admin
288
Total Resources Expended
45,736 3,495
Net Incoming Resources for the
year
7,351 -
Balances Brought forward
at 1 September
15,600 -
Balances Carried Forward
at 31 August
22,951 -|Total
Total
2025
2024
£
£
3,550 5,441
51,712 46,530
1,320 6,187
- -|
|---|---|
||56,582 58,158|
||48,943 50,941
- -
288 311|
||49,231 51,252|
||7,351 6,906
15,600 8,694|
||22,951 15,600|
There were no recognised gains and losses other than those included in the results above and therefore no separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has been presented.
All the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
The notes on pages 4 to 6 form part of these financial statements.
# **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
# **Accountants Report to the directors on the unaudited Financial statements of Youth Create for the year ended 31 August 2025.**
As described on the balance sheet you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025, set out on the attached pages and you consider that the company is exempt from audit. In accordance with your instructio I have compiled these unaudited accounts in order to assist you to fulfil your statutory responsibilities from the accounting records and information supplied to me.
Graham Johnson Hythe Kent
Dated 13/5/2025
)ns
**YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
|**Balance Sheet as at 31**
Notes
Tangible fixed assets
3
Current assets
Debtors and prepayments
4
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year
5
Net Assets
Total Assets
Represented by:
7
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds|**Balance Sheet as at 31**|**August 2025**
20025
£
-
505
23,140
23,645
(695)
22,950
22,950
-
22,950
22,950|2024
£
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||459
15,267|
||||15,726
(125)|
|||||
||||15,601|
||||15,601|
||||-
15,601|
||||15,601|
In preparing these financial statements:
The Directors confirm that for the year in question the company was entitled to the exemption from the requirement to have an audit under the provisions of section 477 of the Companies Act 2006. No Notice Has been deposited at the registered office of the company pursuant to section 476 audit be conducted for the year ended 31 August 2025.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(I) ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006, and
(ii) preparing the financial statements which give a true and fair view of of the state of affairs of the company as at the year end and of its surplus or deficiency for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of section 394 and 395 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements so far as applicable to the company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provision relating to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and FRS105 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities regime.
Approved by the Board of Trustees on and signed on its behalf
Hugh Patrick Linden Director
The notes on pages 4 to 6 form part of these financial statements
(3)
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## a) Basis of Accounting
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities and in accordance with the recommendations contained in the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting by Charities" and applicable accounting standards. A separate income and expenditure account has not been prepared as the information required is included in the statement of financial activities on page 1.
## b) Donations and Fund Raising
Voluntary income received by way of donations and fund raising is included in full in the statement of financial activity when received
- c) Grants
Revenue grants are credited to incoming resources at the earlier date of when they were received or when they are receivable, unless they relate to a specified future period in which case they are deferred. Accruals and Prepayments are calculated accordingly.
- d) Interest Receivable
Interest is accounted for on a receipts basis
## e) Expenditure
Expenditure is charged on an accruals basis.
f) Expenditure has been classified as direct charitable expenditure where substantially all the costs incurred in the expenditure heading relate to the advancement in education of young people in the arts and science of theatre, music and other performing arts.
|**2 Grants and Donations**
Jack Petchey Foundation
Sawbridgeworth Mayoral Fund
Other Grants and Donations|2025
£
3,495
-
-
3,495|2024
£
3,150
1,516
835|
|---|---|---|
|||5,501|
Grants and Donations included above are adjusted for Accruals and Prepayments calculated at 31 August 2025 and 31 August 2024. (See note 1c above)
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## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025 (cont)**
|**3 Tangible Fixed Assets**
Office Equipment
Cost At 1 September
Additions During Year
Assets Scrapped
Cost at 31 August
Depreciation
At 1 September
Charge for Year
Assets Scrapped
At 31 August
WDV at 31 August|2025
£
5,113
-
-
5,113
4,854
259
-
5,113
-|2024
£
5,113
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||5,113|
|||4,854
259
-|
|||5,113|
|||-|
All fixed assets are held for the general use of the charity and no distinction is possible between the direct charitable and administrative or fundraising uses.
|**4 Debtors**
Due Within One Year
Debtors and prepayments
**5 Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Accruals & Prepaid Income|2025
£
-
505
505
2025
£
6,956
6,956|2024
£
-
459|
|---|---|---|
|||459|
|||2024
£
125|
|||125|
## **6 Taxation**
All the company's income is applied for charitable purposes and therefore the charity is exempt from corporation tax.
(5)
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025. (cont)**
## **7 Share capital**
The company is limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital. Each member's guarantee is limited to £1.
## **8 Trustees**
No trustee received any remuneration for his or her service. During the year no trustees were reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses.
## **9 Donations in Kind**
The charity has benefited from the services of unpaid volunteers and donations in kind (including services provided free to the charity) and these services have been evaluted in the sum of £22,230 (2024 £21,060)
(6)
## Donations in Kind
||Hrs per Wk|Term Wks|Total Hrs|Rate|Value|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Other|30|39|1170|19.00|22,230.00|
||||||22,230.00|
YOUTH CREATE
Accounts
Year Ended
31 August 2025.
.
**Company Registration No: 2949854 Registered Charity No: 1040008**
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
|Notes
UnrestrictedRestricted
Funds
Funds
£
£
**Incoming Resources**
Grants & Donation
255 3,495
Membership fees
51,712
Fundraising, Production
and other activities
1,320
Bank interest
- -
Total Income Resources
53,087 3,495
**Resources Expended**
Direct Charitable Expenditure
45,448 3,495
Other Expenditure:
Cost of Generating funds
Management and Admin
288
Total Resources Expended
45,736 3,495
Net Incoming Resources for the
year
7,351 -
Balances Brought forward
at 1 September
15,600 -
Balances Carried Forward
at 31 August
22,951 -|Total
Total
2025
2024
£
£
3,550 5,441
51,712 46,530
1,320 6,187
- -|
|---|---|
||56,582 58,158|
||48,943 50,941
- -
288 311|
||49,231 51,252|
||7,351 6,906
15,600 8,694|
||22,951 15,600|
There were no recognised gains and losses other than those included in the results above and therefore no separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has been presented.
All the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
The notes on pages 4 to 6 form part of these financial statements.
# **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
# **Accountants Report to the directors on the unaudited Financial statements of Youth Create for the year ended 31 August 2025.**
As described on the balance sheet you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025, set out on the attached pages and you consider that the company is exempt from audit. In accordance with your instructio I have compiled these unaudited accounts in order to assist you to fulfil your statutory responsibilities from the accounting records and information supplied to me.
Graham Johnson Hythe Kent
Dated 13/5/2025
)ns
**YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
|**Balance Sheet as at 31**
Notes
Tangible fixed assets
3
Current assets
Debtors and prepayments
4
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year
5
Net Assets
Total Assets
Represented by:
7
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds|**Balance Sheet as at 31**|**August 2025**
20025
£
-
505
23,140
23,645
(695)
22,950
22,950
-
22,950
22,950|2024
£
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||459
15,267|
||||15,726
(125)|
|||||
||||15,601|
||||15,601|
||||-
15,601|
||||15,601|
In preparing these financial statements:
The Directors confirm that for the year in question the company was entitled to the exemption from the requirement to have an audit under the provisions of section 477 of the Companies Act 2006. No Notice Has been deposited at the registered office of the company pursuant to section 476 audit be conducted for the year ended 31 August 2025.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(I) ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006, and
(ii) preparing the financial statements which give a true and fair view of of the state of affairs of the company as at the year end and of its surplus or deficiency for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of section 394 and 395 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements so far as applicable to the company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provision relating to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and FRS105 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities regime.
Approved by the Board of Trustees on and signed on its behalf
Hugh Patrick Linden Director
The notes on pages 4 to 6 form part of these financial statements
(3)
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## a) Basis of Accounting
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities and in accordance with the recommendations contained in the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting by Charities" and applicable accounting standards. A separate income and expenditure account has not been prepared as the information required is included in the statement of financial activities on page 1.
## b) Donations and Fund Raising
Voluntary income received by way of donations and fund raising is included in full in the statement of financial activity when received
- c) Grants
Revenue grants are credited to incoming resources at the earlier date of when they were received or when they are receivable, unless they relate to a specified future period in which case they are deferred. Accruals and Prepayments are calculated accordingly.
- d) Interest Receivable
Interest is accounted for on a receipts basis
## e) Expenditure
Expenditure is charged on an accruals basis.
f) Expenditure has been classified as direct charitable expenditure where substantially all the costs incurred in the expenditure heading relate to the advancement in education of young people in the arts and science of theatre, music and other performing arts.
|**2 Grants and Donations**
Jack Petchey Foundation
Sawbridgeworth Mayoral Fund
Other Grants and Donations|2025
£
3,495
-
-
3,495|2024
£
3,150
1,516
835|
|---|---|---|
|||5,501|
Grants and Donations included above are adjusted for Accruals and Prepayments calculated at 31 August 2025 and 31 August 2024. (See note 1c above)
(4)
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025 (cont)**
|**3 Tangible Fixed Assets**
Office Equipment
Cost At 1 September
Additions During Year
Assets Scrapped
Cost at 31 August
Depreciation
At 1 September
Charge for Year
Assets Scrapped
At 31 August
WDV at 31 August|2025
£
5,113
-
-
5,113
4,854
259
-
5,113
-|2024
£
5,113
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||5,113|
|||4,854
259
-|
|||5,113|
|||-|
All fixed assets are held for the general use of the charity and no distinction is possible between the direct charitable and administrative or fundraising uses.
|**4 Debtors**
Due Within One Year
Debtors and prepayments
**5 Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Accruals & Prepaid Income|2025
£
-
505
505
2025
£
6,956
6,956|2024
£
-
459|
|---|---|---|
|||459|
|||2024
£
125|
|||125|
## **6 Taxation**
All the company's income is applied for charitable purposes and therefore the charity is exempt from corporation tax.
(5)
## **YOUTH CREATE Company Limited by Guarantee Registered No. 1040008**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025. (cont)**
## **7 Share capital**
The company is limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital. Each member's guarantee is limited to £1.
## **8 Trustees**
No trustee received any remuneration for his or her service. During the year no trustees were reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses.
## **9 Donations in Kind**
The charity has benefited from the services of unpaid volunteers and donations in kind (including services provided free to the charity) and these services have been evaluted in the sum of £22,230 (2024 £21,060)
(6)
## Donations in Kind
||Hrs per Wk|Term Wks|Total Hrs|Rate|Value|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Other|30|39|1170|19.00|22,230.00|
||||||22,230.00|