Annual Trustees’ Report For the year ended 31 August 2025
Youth With a Mission York Charity registration number 1194354
Reference and Administrative Details
Trustees
Deborah Stevenson Elizabeth Fergusson Michael Chesterman
Principle Office
46 Osbaldwick Lane York North Yorkshire YO10 3AX
Charity Registration Number
1194354
Bankers
NatWest National Westminster Bank Plc, 250 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4AA.
Trustees’ Report
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025.
Structure, governance and management
Nature of the governing document
Youth With a Mission York is a registered charity, number 1194354, and is established as a charitable incorporated organisation under a constitution dated 23 April 2021.
Recruitment and appointment of trustees
The management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the constitution.
Risk Management
The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finances of the charity, and are satisfied that systems and procedures are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
Objectives and Activities
Objects and Aims
The objects of the charity are:
To advance the Evangelical Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Faith in York and throughout the UK for the benefit of the public mainly but not exclusively through street evangelism, religious education and training and to provide outreach and pastoral care for the community.
Public Benefit
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Achievements and Performance
Review of Activities
In the last twelve months we have focussed our activities primarily on Tang Hall in York. Michael Chesterman remained our chair of trustees. Nicole stepped away from the team due to family reasons in spring 2025. We helped a local church to run children’s and youth work with young people from Tang Hall. We also continued ministering to the local care home and joined in activities with two local Anglican churches which reached those older or isolated in the community and youth.
Street Evangelism
We helped to create and run a week-long outreach week for university students called Love Tang Hall, which enabled students to give out free Bibles and to do street evangelism on Tang Hall Lane. We also did street evangelism to university students and to locals in the Tang Hall area.
Religious Education
Through our weekly children’s work, we continue to teach the children of Tang Hall about what it looks like to be a Christian and what we believe about Jesus. Our weekly kids’ club, the Corner Kids, has grown, and every term, we focus on different aspects of Christian living, such as loving others, sharing, etc. We also tell them Bible stories and allow them to ask questions.
Through Love Tang Hall, we taught university aged students about different practises of the Christian faith.
We worked with York Youth and Schools Trust (YoYo) to offer prayer spaces in local schools.
We ran the youth activities for youth for an Anglican Church at their church weekend away, where we taught them about prayer.
Deborah has continued to coordinate citywide Gospel sharing, which included six churches simultaneously running courses to teach people about Christianity that all began the same week in January, and she co-hosted and taught sessions for Alpha’s Holy Spirit Day for those churches which taught people who were curious about Christianity what it means to be a Christian.
Outreach and Pastoral Care to the Community
We mentored youth and students who wanted to grow in their Christian faith by meeting with them regularly to pray and read the Bible.
Love Tang Hall allowed us to connect with several families from the community, one of which we continued to support practically and spiritually when she had need.
Deborah, Renee and Yvonne all went to camp with the kids and youth from local churches. Yvonne organised the younger kids’ camp and looked after them. Deborah was the pastoral volunteer for the youth camp, and Renee led a lodge of girls and helped to support the youth from The Corner youth club who came along.
Deborah went to a Christian youth festival with several of the youth girls that we mentor as a team to support them spiritually.
Deborah began attending a community hub held at a local church by a Christian homelessness charity just after the food bank in order to listen to and help those in the community who are struggling and in need of prayer and advice.
Yvonne and Renee began going into a local primary school to mentor students who had been labelled “at risk.”
Renee continues to plan for and lead the team for the Corner, a youth club in Tang Hall that helps to get troubled youth off the streets and gives them constructive activities, games and a meal. Yvonne runs the same type of club for kids in older primary school.
Leadership
YWAM York is still led by Deborah Stevenson. She is helped in her role by two elders, fellow YWAMers Anne Sloan and Else Tarbitt, who help with the practical and spiritual guidance of the team. In a practical way, she is supported by Eliza Fergusson, a trustee who is a York local and is able to help with creation and implementation of policies.
Building Development
We sold the Barnabas Centre in May 2025. We do not currently have plans to buy another property.
Closing Remarks
We are still a small team, but we have been able to work together with churches and charities in our local area to have an impact that is far greater than what we would be able to do alone. We are grateful to the churches who allow us to use their space and to the charities who share time and resources with us. We are also pleased to be able to continue our work across all of the generations and with the people of Tang Hall. We look forward to expanding our children and youth work in Tang Hall and to being able to further support families in need in our area with prayer, emotional and practical support. As these different activities continue to grow, we are hopeful that our religious education will also need to grow in pace with them so that we can continue to pursue our charity objectives and to see Tang Hall and York supported with more knowledge of and help from those of the Christian faith.
Financial Review
Income for the year amounted to £8,741.77and expenditure £10,463.45, with a loss of £1,721.68, which came out of our unrestricted fund balance which now has a total of £1,350.90 at the end of the year.
Going Concern
After making the appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.
Policy on reserves
As a newly established charity, we aim to continue to retain reserves of three months of expenses, which we have more than maintained this year.
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the applicable Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 21 June 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
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SIGN
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Michael Chesterman, Chair of Trustees
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| Youth With a Mission York | Youth With a Mission York | |||
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| Balance Sheet | ||||
| As of 31 Aug, 2025 | ||||
| Total | ||||
| Cash at bank and in hand | ||||
| 1291 Nat West Current Account | -368.39 | |||
| 1305 Funds Pot | ||||
| 1310 Unrestricted Funds Pot | 483.11 | |||
| 1315 Restricted Funds Pot | 5.06 | |||
| 1318 Kids and Youth Grants & Donations | 0 | |||
| 1319 Community Grants & Donations | 50.82 | |||
| 1320 Hospitality Pot | 263.89 | |||
| 3020 Staff Care Pot | 527.65 | |||
| Total for 1315 Restricted Funds Pot | £847.42 | |||
| Total for 1305 Funds Pot | £1,330.53 | |||
| Total for 1291 Nat West Current Account | 962.14 | |||
| 1294 National Petty Cash | 388.76 | |||
| Total for Cash at bank and in hand | 1,350.90 | |||
| Debtors | ||||
| 1100 Trade Debtors | £0.00 | |||
| Total for Debtors | £0.00 | |||
| NET CURRENT ASSETS | 1,350.90 | |||
| NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES) | 1,350.90 | |||
| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES | 1,350.90 | |||
| TOTAL NET ASSETS (LIABILITIES) | 1,350.90 | |||
| Charity Funds | ||||
| 3200 Opening Balance Equity | 3,633.05 | |||
| Retained Earnings | -560.47 | |||
| Surplus/(Deficit) | -1,721.68 | |||
| Total for Charity Funds | £1,350.90 | |||
| Accrual Basis Sunday, 21 June 2026 06:33 PM GMTZ |
| Youth With a Mission York | Youth With a Mission York | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit and Loss by Tag Group | ||
| September 2024 - August 2025 | ||
| Total | ||
| Income | ||
| 4000 Donations | ||
| 4001 Unrestricted Donations | 2,639.09 | |
| 4005 Restricted Donations | 320 | |
| Total 4000 Donations | £ 2,959.09 | |
| 4105 Rent Income | 1,504.08 | |
| 4202 Staff Care | 1,035.00 | |
| 4405 Reimbursements | -94.39 | |
| 4800 Sales of Product Income | 349.6 | |
| Services | 2,988.39 | |
| Total Income | £8,741.77, | |
| Total | £8,741.77, | |
| Expenditures | ||
| 5004 YWAM Fees | 247.44 | |
| 5005 Conference & Lodging Expen | 230 |
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| 5101 Hospitality | 201.2 | |
| 5301 Offering Allocation | 610 | |
| 5601 Outreach | 39.26 | |
| 5725 Purchases | 313.94 | |
| 5110 Food Purchases | 17.59 | |
| 5700 Materials | 47.9 | |
| 5705 Miscellaneous Purchases | 5 | |
| 6161 Equipment Purchases | 6.99 | |
| Total 5725 Purchases | £ 391.42 | |
| 6005 Light & Heat | 2,212.24 | |
| 6015 Council Tax | 2,144.96 | |
| 6020 Water | 823.15 | |
| 6025 Waste | 216.93 | |
| 6030 Premises Maintenance Costs | 298 |
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| 6110 Office Costs | 702 | |
| 6201 Insurances | 1,543.77 | |
| 6400 Telephone and Internet | 758.08 | |
| 6701 Hire of Vehicles | 45 | |
| Total Expenditures | £10,463.45 | |
| Net Operating Income | -£ 1,721.68 |
| Net Income/(Expenditure) | -£ 1,721.68 | |
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| Sunday, Jun 21, 2026 08:07:20 pm GMT+1 - Accrual Basis |