Bradford Youth Development Partnership

Analysis

Bradford Youth Development Partnership is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bradford. It was registered in March 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, economic/community development/employment and recreation, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03891257). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bradford Youth Development Partnership reported income of £85k and spending of £94k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £163k to £85k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bradford Youth Development Partnership sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grains of Hope Foundation (£85k), Clean Slate Financial Wellbeing Services CIO (£85k) and Ocu Foundation (£85k).

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.