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Registered charity · Birkenhead

The National Youth Advocacy Service

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.nyas.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Youth Advocacy Service
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£12m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£10m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.1m£9.0m
  • 2021£8.2m£8.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 45% · Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO RELIEVE ANY CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS OR VULNERABLE ADULTS AND THE FAMILIES AND CARERS OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE OR PROTECTION BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE REPRESENTATION ASSISTANCE AND LEGAL AND OTHER SERVICES WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE AVAILABLE EITHER BY REASON OF THEIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES OR BECAUSE OF THE POVERTY OF THEIR PARENTS GUARDIANS FOSTER PARENTS OR THOSE OTHERWISE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE AND PROTECTION. B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON ALL ASPECTS OF CHILD CARE LAW, SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND FAMILY POLICY AND HUMAN RIGHTS C) TO INITIATE, PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO THE UPBRINGING, EDUCATION, CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS, VULNERABLE ADULTS AND OTHERS IN NEED AND THEIR FAMILIES AND TO EVALUATE RESEARCH MATERIAL WHETHER INITIATED BY THE TRUST OR NOT AND TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION LIKELY TO BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS, VULNERABLE ADULTS AND OTHERS IN NEED AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Grants received

27 grants · £1,579,670 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

6.5y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 8Education/training 3Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 10Health and social care 6Arts and leisure 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£11.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.3 in 2021

258 from 197 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
60%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1012485
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 JUNE 1992 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 20 JULY 1998, 9 JUNE 2009 & 2 MARCH 2010.
Companies House
Company number 02722134 · Active
Contact on the register
01516498700 · main@nyas.net
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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