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Registered charity · Liverpool

Merseyside Youth Association Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £5.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens and more
Website
www.mya.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Merseyside Youth Association Limited
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.1m£4.1m
  • 2024£5.0m£5.0m
  • 2023£4.4m£4.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.7m£4.0m
  • 2021£3.8m£3.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 74%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE AND CO-ORDINATE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER WELFARE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN MERSEYSIDE WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTHFULNESS INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITY THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Grants received

37 grants · £12,539,082 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,810,912 (10 grants)
  • Department for Work and Pensions · £458,648 (5 grants)
  • Youth Music · £436,810 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £423,166 (5 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £212,711 (2 grants)

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

20.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7Education/training 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Religious Activities 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.

Health and social care 10Finance 8Business services 7

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£5.1m latest income
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.

12.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.2 in 2021

81 from 70 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.
83%
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
700738
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 AUGUST 1984 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 18 NOVEMBER 1985 AND 15 FEBRUARY 2000.
Companies House
Company number 01843226 · Active
Contact on the register
01517020700 · admin@mya.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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