Overall GiG Score: 4 ?
Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 3
  • Pension deficit: -1
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

Y CARE INTERNATIONAL 

Y Care International creates opportunities for vulnerable young people to help themselves out of poverty by finding jobs or setting up businesses. We are the international relief & development agency of the YMCA movement in the UK and Ireland. We work with a unique network of YMCAs and other partners across 15 of the world?s poorest countries.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • There is a pension deficit of £175,583
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 19 years
(23 years as a company)

www.ycareinternational.org

info@ycareinternational.org

02075493150

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
31/08/22£1,086£746£340£158£844£77812.500
31/08/21?£168£330£-163£409£667£57020.7130
31/03/20£2,278£2,884£-606£707£1,078£9483.9181
31/03/19£2,733£3,204£-471£602£1,684£1,3174.92333
31/03/18£5,498£5,787£-289£564£2,155£1,5783.3410
31/03/17£5,916£5,982£-66£667£2,444£1,4903330
31/03/16£6,288£6,467£-179£657£2,510£1,7403.2290
31/03/15£5,573£4,590£983£498£2,872£1,6294.3230
31/03/14£3,999£3,986£13£521£1,890£5351.6230
31/03/13£3,872£4,018£-146£660£1,877£6562190
31/03/12£3,246£3,779£-532£826£2,023£8582.7180
31/03/11£3,193£3,474£-281£671£2,555£8032.8170
31/03/10£3,891£3,466£425£612£2,836£8873.1210
31/03/09£3,245£3,812£-568£579£2,411£9152.9220
31/03/08£3,258£3,446£-188£588£2,979£1,0313.6190
31/03/07*£3,397£4,203£-806£895£3,167£7062190
31/03/06£3,195£4,645£-1,450£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 14.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 21.2%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 12.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 16 months
Quick Ratio: 3.1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bangladesh, Burma, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Throughout England And Wales, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Y Care International
£100 28/04/2022
Unrestricted donation from W Scott
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Y Care International
£300 05/02/2022
Community of Hope Christmas Appeal 2021.Donation from Rosemary Byrde.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Y Care International
£100 06/05/2021
General charitable donation from W Scott
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Y Care International
£300 14/12/2020
URGENT APPEAL Support young people From Rosemary Byrde
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Y Care International
£100 04/05/2020
General charitable donation from W Scott
Comic Relief - Mek Pull Slum Pan Pipul (PSPP) Timap Tranga Wan (English: Strengthening Pull Slum Pan Pipul - PSPP)
£404,525 08/05/2019
6
This project builds on the success of PSPP interventions, combining consortium members’ collective expertise to deliver a joint initiative, aimed at strengthening and sustaining urban development ....more
Comic Relief - Fit for the Future - A Global Centre of Excellence in Youth Enterprise and Employment
£250,000 06/11/2018
8
To establish Y Care International as a global centre of excellence in enterprise & employment, making their operating model more relevant for the future and creating more opportunities for decent ....more
Comic Relief - Karate for a better life - empowering young women and men in Zambian slums.
£140,000 19/07/2017
36
This project will increase social inclusion of young women who have dropped out of school, and ensure healthy relationships are understood and promoted in Kalingalinga slum, Lusaka. Via Karate, 200 ....more
Comic Relief - Mobilising young people in Liberia and Sierra Leone to rebuild communities devastated by the Ebola o
£655,697 25/11/2015
24
Sierra Leone and Liberia were ravaged by the Ebola outbreak. Aside from the legacy of death and disease, the Ebola outbreak also left behind a severely weakened economy. This has affected young ....more
Comic Relief - Protecting and rehabilitating vulnerable ‘at risk’ young people in Togo
£711,347 27/05/2015
48
Hundreds of young people, many of them street children, are detained in Togo’s prisons. They are wrongfully detained, often for long periods, by a flawed justice system. All have difficult ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Strengthening livelihoods and disaster resilience for Haitian youth
£570,921 20/04/2015
36
Strengthening livelihoods and disaster resilience for Haitian youth
National Lottery Community Fund - Securing healthy lives & sustainable livelihoods for vulnerable YP in Liber
£292,545 18/12/2013
36
This project, based in the remote towns of Zorzor and Yekepa in Lofa and Nimba counties, Liberia, aims to improve the economic and health status of 5,300 vulnerable young people and their families ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeding the Next Generation
£498,546 21/06/2012
48
The project in Nicaragua aims to strengthen the livelihoods of young people and their families. It will also lead to better access to safe water and enhanced disaster risk reduction planning. Young ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (15)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 14/15 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-67
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/06/2005, number: 1109789
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/05/2000, number: 03997006
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR07: 2 days late,
Main office

Methodist Church House
25 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SF

Objectives

TO:1. RELIEVE, OR ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF, PERSONS OF ALL AGES (PARTICULARLY YOUNG PERSONS), WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, PARTICULARLY BY SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL RELIEF WORK AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES;2. PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF, EDUCATION FOR PERSONS OF ALL AGES (PARTICULARLY YOUNG PERSONS), WITH THE OBJECT OF DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL, OR SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES, INCLUDING DEVELOPING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF RELIEF WORK AND DEVELOPMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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