YMCA Northumberland

Analysis

YMCA Northumberland is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northumberland. It was registered in June 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03541107). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2026, YMCA Northumberland reported income of £368k and spending of £375k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £575k to £368k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, YMCA Northumberland sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friendly Almshouses (£368k), The Ethiopian Christian Fellowship (UK) (£368k) and Home-Start Southwark and Lewisham (£367k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.