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The National Youth Advocacy Service

Registered charity 1012485 Registered since 1992

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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

19.1y
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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.nyas.net
Emailmain@nyas.net
Phone01516498700
AddressNYAS, Units 1 - 4 Priory Mews, Monks Ferry, Birkenhead, CH41 5AZ

Finances

£11,839,321 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£8,199,709£7,958,106
2022£9,142,253£9,031,482
2023£10,228,850£10,291,568
2024£10,774,395£10,567,856
2025£11,839,321£11,595,402

What it does

What

General Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young People

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/information

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.

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.

Trustees (8)

8trustees
63median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The National Youth Advocacy Service · 02722134 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 10/06/1992

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (7)

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