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2025-03-31-accounts

Charity Number 1122364 Company Number 6244662

GREENWICH YOUTH FOR CHRIST A charitable company limited by guarantee

Report & Financial Statements for the Year ended 31[st] March 2025

Greenwich Youth For Christ

A charitable company limited by guarantee

Report & Financial Statements for the Year ended 31[st] March 2025

Contents Page
Charity Information 1
Trustee's Report 2 - 7
Independent Examiner's Report 8
Statement of Financial Activities 9
Balance Sheet 10
Notes to the Accounts 11 - 16

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Report of the Management Committee

The Management Committee presents its report and independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31[st] March 2025

Legal & Administrative Information

Incorporation: Greenwich Youth for Christ became a company limited by guarantee, and was incorporated on 11[th] May 2007.

Company number: 6244662

Charity number 1122364.

The charity also operates as GYFC

Registered Office & GYFC St James Church Rectory Correspondence Address 62 Kidbrooke Park London SE3 0DU Trustees: Beverley Campbell (Chair) Christine Ridgwell Carolyn Cartwright Christopher Ashworth Laura Faturoti Afi Kirk (resigned on 03.06.25)

Independent Examiner Peter Saltiel Church & Charity Accounts Service Ltd 7 Planchadeau 23460 Saint Pierre Bellevue France

Bankers

The Co-operative Bank P O Box 250 Delf House Skelmersdale WN8 6WT

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Greenwich Youth for Christ Trustees’ / Directors’ Annual Report

The trustees present their report for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Objectives and Activities

When planning our activities for the year, the trustees have considered the commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. They have affirmed the following statements in their strategy document: Greenwich Youth for Christ is a registered charity committed to its mission of enhancing the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and intellectual development of young people from all backgrounds.

Our work with young people aims to be high-quality, creative, distinctive, and effective. Our faith inspires us to provide the very best for young people, serving the needs of young people within the local community, enabling them to grow holistically through choice and change. The values we hold are derived from our Christian heritage and our desire to demonstrate the relevance of the Christian faith for today.

The objects of the charity are: To promote the Christian faith (in accordance with the Apostles’ Creed set out in the schedule) for the benefit of the public, in particular (but without limitation) in Greenwich and its environs, amongst children and young people;

Structure, governance and Management

Trustee recruitment and appointment: The skill sets of existing trustees are reviewed and gaps identified. This process is important in developing a role description for new trustees. Prospective trustees are invited to meet the director and the chair of trustees, the responsibility and expectations of trustees are clearly laid out and the identified role discussed. If it is decided to proceed further, the candidate is invited to attend a trustees meeting as an observer and a subsequent meeting is then held to clarify any outstanding issues. If they wish to proceed, and the other trustees are satisfied, then at the next trustees meeting they will be formally asked to join.

Trustee Induction and Training: There are four executive meetings a year, and one strategy morning where key issues are focused on and discussed. Each trustee is given access to the office and to all the paperwork relating to the charity. Emphasis is placed on ensuring that each trustee is well positioned to bring their expertise to bear. As such the CEO invests considerable time in ensuring that trustees are clear about what is happening in their responsibility area. At each executive meeting there is a work report which monitors progress against key objectives set out in the three year development plan. We subscribe to the Charity Commission’s publication ‘governance’ and a copy of this is sent to each trustee. Additionally trustees receive regular trustee updates from National Youth for Christ.

Affiliations: Greenwich Youth for Christ is a chartered ministry of Youth for Christ (Charity no. 263446). It is a member of NCVO.

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Policies and Procedures: A core value of the organisation is investment in people and we have invested in staff and volunteer training and development. Greenwich Youth for Christ has continued to review and develop policies and procedures, with Safeguarding and Health and Safety being reviewed annually and all other policies being reviewed regularly. The trustees now have a subcommittee overseeing this process. The emphasis is on building a robust structure that will provide a solid base for future expansion. The organisation has undertaken an assessment of the main risks facing the organisation, especially related to finances, and systems are in place to take appropriate action.

Risk Assessment: The trustees have a procedure in place to regularly review the risks – financial and non-financial facing the organisation and the trustees are satisfied that appropriate measures to mitigate risk are in place. Internal controls over all forms of commitment and expenditure continue to be refined to improve efficiency. Processes are in place to ensure that performance is monitored and that appropriate management information is prepared and reviewed regularly, by both the executive management and the Board. A programme of monitoring is in place, derived from a comprehensive risk management review.

The systems of internal control are designed to provide reasonable but not absolute assurance against material misstatement or loss. They include:

Activities and achievements

Objectives for year 2024/2025

This year was the second year that Joe Crisp-Hihn continued to commute from Ipswich to London working on a Tuesday and Wednesday for Greenwich Youth For Christ. In Jan 2025 he said he would be leaving at the end of the academic year, with the planned 30[th] Anniversary in July, being a good final event to be involved with. It meant finding a replacement Director was crucial for the charity. The hope was that Mechac Santima would potentially be able to take more of a lead role and transition into this position, however he was not quite right for the role having already been moved onto sessional employment in September 2024. With the reduction in hours, Mechac needed to find additional employment, he started a new job in November 2024 with Spark2Life mentoring charity. He continued to work at Vertical youth Club for Greenwich Youth For Christ until March 2025 when he was unable to manage both jobs. We have created a role description and are in the process of advertising for Centre Director.

“The Gathering” continued to run three more successful events over the course of the year. The

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pattern and style of program remain the same at each gathering, so young people could grow in confidence of what they and any friends they invite, were coming to. We continue to have vibrant praise and worship, testimony, a short message, followed by food and social time together. This year has seen 136 different young people attend from 11 Churches. The goal was to add a “Gathering” day conference, which I am pleased to report we were able to run. This took place in February, it was hosted by BCBC and saw 43 young people attended, there was worship, seminars, food, activities and plenty of time for young people to build relationships across the churches. We were unable to co ordinate the “Gathering” going to a summer festival in Summer 2024, logistically, there just wasn’t enough availability and capacity to deliver this with the staff team we had.

Unfortunately, we were unable to recruit any new Trustees, we asked a number of people directly, as well as advertising through local networks, sadly no one was able to commit. There are a number of others who at the time of writing have not given a decision. This will remain a target for next year. The current Trustees do a fantastic job, however

We made the decision to ask Mhairi Veall to do a review of our social media, website and print communication over the summer holidays. With her findings it was decided that we would employ here for 8 hours a month, to refresh our website, manage our social media pages and help promote and advertise the 30[th] anniversary.

GYFC remains in a fairly stable financial position as we look to keep costs low and deliver in partnership with local Churches. There has been a saving in staffing cost with Mechac Santima moving to a sessional contract, and St Michaels Blackheath, covering the cost of Joe Crisp-Hihn to help manage and run their midweek discipleship.

At this point we would lke to acknowledge, with thanks, the considerable support that we receive, in volunteer time and in many donations both financial and in kind, which adds considerable benefit to our operations, particularly in light of the ever increasing cost of living.

Delivery: The operations of the charity are delivered in three main project strands; Open Access Groups, Focused Impact Groups and Church Support. At the heart of the organisation there is a commitment to high quality youth work inspired by our faith. We are actively engaged in local networks and partnerships with local providers, attending church networks, and meeting with other agencies. On a wider level Greenwich Youth for Christ continues to work closely with other Youth for Christ Centres, attending local centre gatherings, drawing on their considerable expertise and resources as one of the largest deliverers of Christian Youth work in the country.

Open Access Groups

Jays group runs afterschool at St James Kidbrooke on Tuesdays. The group engages, mainly, with students from Thomas Tallis and is well supported by volunteers from St James Church. This year continues to see a wonderful cross over from young people attending Jays into the Church run Friday night monthly youth group and additional Church activities including the Gathering.

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Vertical group runs on Tuesday evenings in partnership with BCBC. The group provides a safe and welcoming space for young people from all different backgrounds. This past year has seen a slight shift as Joe Crisp-Hihn is no longer able to attend the whole session. Mechac and BCBC Volunteer Cleo have led the group well, with GYFC also recruiting an additional sessional worker Lucas Fataroti, who will continue to run the group with Cleo, in light of Mechac leaving.

St Johns Plumstead Drop in continued into its third year and engages well with both young people from the church and local community. The Church’s youth worker Helen continues to build strong relationships between young people from the group, their families and the church.

Tramshed Drop in continued after taking a break, while it sourced external funding, with the venue no longer being able to be offered for free. Mechac continued to help on a Friday evening and also supported their smaller discipleship group that met afterwards.

Focused Impact work: Our focused impact work saw us continue to work with Mary Magdalene School, we continued our discussion based lunch club, provided mentoring support in the nurture room and continued the afterschool Christian Club.

In October 2024 we re-started a midweek discipleship group with St Michaels Blackheath and their youthworker, Dom Garriques. This group met to help develop and grow young peoples faith and help them discuss a number of issues affecting young Christians.

Church Support: Through partnership we supported four churches in running Open Access groups, and helped St Michaels with re-launch their discipleship group. We have hosted a number of youth worker breakfasts and ran the termly and day “Gathering.”

Objectives for the coming year

Our objectives for 2025/26 are to :

Financial Review

Financial report: Income for the year was £60,639 (2024 £57,785) and expenditure was £59,118 (2024 £55,326) and included restricted fund grants and donations of £17,820 and related expenditure of £18,145 with a restricted fund balance of £984 brought forward and £659 forward at the year end. Unrestricted funds at the year-end was £79,311 (2024 £77,465). Details of the restricted funds are shown in Note 8 and the trustees thank the donors of these grants for their support in enabling us to continue our charitable activities.

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As part of the ongoing commitment to improving the quality of the organisation’s financial management, the trustees acted on a number of specific issues. We are pleased to report that those measures we put in place in the last financial year have further strengthened our financial management processes.

Fundraising: We have continued to develop our fundraising programme. We operate a rolling programme of fundraising. This includes grant applications, fundraising events and appeals for support from local individuals and churches.

Reserves policy: The trustees have again reviewed the reserves requirement in line with the guidance issued by the charity commission and have reaffirmed that 3 months running costs (£12,000) should be set aside or designated to safeguard activities in the event of delays in receipt of grants. This figure has now been achieved with reserves currently £13,898.

Statement of Trustees Responsibilities and corporate governance

The trustees are responsible for their annual report and for the preparation of financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the incoming resources and application of the resources of the charity during the year, and of the state of affairs at the end of the financial year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees have overall responsibility for ensuring that the charity has appropriate systems and controls, financial and otherwise. They are also responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and for their proper application, as required by charity law, and hence for taking reasonable steps for prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities and to provide reasonable

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assurance that:

Approval

This report was approved by the Directors on 05/11/2025 and signed on their behalf by:

Beverley Campbell

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees/Directors/Members of the Greenwich Youth For Christ Charity no.: 1122364 Company no.: 6244662

I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31[st] March 2025 which are set out on pages 9-16.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Peter Saltiel Church & Charity Accounts Service Ltd 7 Planchadeau 23460 Saint-Pierre-Bellevue France

Dated 12[th] November 2025

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Statement of Financial Activities and Income & Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31st March 2025

Notes
Income and endowments
3
Donations and legacies
3.1
Fundraising
3.2
Investments
3.3
Total incoming resources
Expenditure on
4
Fundraising costs
4.1
Charitable activities
4.2
Net Incoming / (outgoing) resources
for the Year
Total funds balance brought forward
8
Total funds balance carried forward
8
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
2025
£
£
£
40,265
17,820
58,085
1,059
-
1,059
1,495
-
1,495
Total
2024
£
56,348
-
1,437
42,819
17,820
60,639
57,785
1,794
-
1,794
39,179
18,145
57,324
-
55,326
40,973
18,145
59,118
55,326
1,846
(325)
1,521
77,465
984
78,449
2,459
75,990
79,311
659
79,970
78,449

All activities are regarded as continuing.

The above statement includes all recognised gains and losses during the year.

The Balance Sheet and Notes to the Accounts form part of these Financial Statements

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Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2025

2025 2024
Notes £ £ £ £
Current Assets
Cash at bank and in hand 80,710 77,698
Debtors 6 457 2,384
81,167 80,082
Liabilities
Amounts falling due within one year
Creditors: amounts falling 7 1,197 1,633
Net Current Assets 79,970 78,449
Total Assets Less Current
Liabilities 79,970 78,449
Funds
Unrestricted Funds
General Fund 79,311 77,465
Restricted Funds 659 984
8 79,970 78,449

The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) confirm that for the year ended 31st March 2025:

The accounts have been examined by an independent examiner whose report appears on page 8.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

The Notes on pages 11 to 16 form an integral part of these accounts.

These accounts, which have been prepared in accordance with the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies, were approved by the Trustees/Directors on 05/11/25 and signed on their behalf by:

Beverley Campbell

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025

1 Basis of preparation

1.1 Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts, accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 and with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

There are no changes in the basis of accounting have been made during the year.

There have been no changes to the previous accounts during the financial year.

1.4 Judgements and estimations

The trustees have not made any significant judgements in the process of applying the accounting policies.

1.5 Going concern

At the time of approving the accounts, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has sufficient reserves and that the charity is a going concern.

2 Accounting policies

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025 (cont’d)

2 Accounting policies (cont’d)

Management and administration costs of the charity relate to the costs of running the charity and includes any costs which cannot be specifically identified to another expenditure.

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025 (cont’d)

2 Accounting policies (cont’d)

2.5 Assets

Fixed assets in excess of £500 are capitalised and depreciated over their estimated useful life.

Depreciation period in respect of equipment is over three years.

2.6 Liabilities

Current liabilities are obligations to pay for goods or services within one year.

2.7 Retirement benefits

The company operates a defined contribution scheme for certain of its employees. Pension premiums are charged as they are paid.

2.8 Taxation

The company is a registered charity and is exempt from taxation under the Income and Corporation Tax Acts.

2.9 Cashflow statement

The company has taken advantage of the exemption provided by the FRS SORP and has not prepared a Cash Flow Statement for the year.

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025 (cont’d)

3
3.1
3.2
3.2
Total
Analysis of income
Voluntary Income
Donations
Grants
Tax reclaims
Fundraising
Miscellaneous
Investments
Interest
income
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Fund
Fund
Funds
2025
2025
2025
£
£
£
35,912
-
35,912
-
17,820
17,820
4,353
-
4,353
Total
Funds
2024
£
31,991
20,283
4,074
40,265
17,820
58,085
56,348
1,059
-
1,059
-
1,059
-
1,059
-
1,495
-
1,495
1,437
1,495
-
1,495
1,437
42,819
17,820
60,639
57,785

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025 (cont’d)

4 Analysis of expenditure

4.1
4.2
Fundraising Costs
Publicity & Communication
Marathon
Direct costs
Staff costs
Staff training
Travel & subsistence
Sessional worker
Youth work activites
Activity trips
Events
Equipment and resources
Premises costs
Technical support
Gifts
Books
Support costs
Support costs
Governance costs
Printing, postage and stationery
Subscriptions and professional fees
Total expenditure
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Fund
Fund
Funds
2025
2025
2025
£
£
£
1,350
-
1,350
444
-
444
1,794
-
1,794
28,020
14,843
42,863
38
-
38
137
58
195
2,706
-
2,706
181
459
640
-
1,214
1,214
119
-
119
17
1,021
1,038
3,773
550
4,323
245
-
245
2,145
-
2,145
46
-
46
1,752
-
1,752
Total
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
42,736
60
372
-
693
1,276
82
1,421
4,565
173
2,173
-
1,775
39,179
18,145
57,324
55,326
1,059
-
1,059
52
-
52
641
-
641
1,009
134

632
1,752

-
1,752
1,775
40,973
18,145
59,118
55,326

5 Staff costs

Gross wages, salaries and benefits in kind
Employers' NIC
Employers' pension costs
Number of employees
2025
2024
£
£
40,098
40,534
-
-
2,765
2,329
42,863
42,863
1.34
1.84

No employee received a remuneration of over £60,000.

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2025 (cont’d)

6 Debtors:

Tax recoverable
Accruals & Prepayments
2025
2024
£
£
457
2,384
-
-
457
2,384

7 Creditors:

atement of Funds:
Social security and other taxes
Accruals
Bank and cash
Debtors
Creditors
Unrestricted funds
Restricted Funds
Charlton Athletic Charitable Trust
Jack Petchey Award
Unrestricted
Restricted
Funds
Funds
80,051
659
457
-
(1,197)
-
2025
£
138
1,059
2024
£
624
1,009
1,197 1,633
Total 2025
Funds
80,710
457
(1,197)
Total 2024
Funds
77,698
2,384
(1,633)
79,311
659
79,970 78,449
1st Apr
Income
£
£
77,465
42,819

-
16,000
984
1,820
Expenditure
£
(40,973)
(16,000)
(2,145)
31st Mar
£
79,311
-
659
78,449
60,639
(59,118) 79,970

8 Statement of Funds:

Charlton Athletic Community Trust

9 Remuneration to Trustees:

The trustees received no remuneration during the year and none of their expenses were reimbursed.

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