Common questions about The National Youth Agency's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The National Youth Agency a good charity? +
The National Youth Agency scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The National Youth Agency a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The National Youth Agency as a registered charity (charity number 1035804). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1035804&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The National Youth Agency's charity number? +
The National Youth Agency's charity number is 1035804. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The National Youth Agency's charity rating? +
The National Youth Agency scores 87 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The National Youth Agency have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The National Youth Agency. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The National Youth Agency? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The National Youth Agency's total spending went to charitable activities. That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The National Youth Agency's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 0% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The National Youth Agency. The National Youth Agency's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The National Youth Agency receive? +
The National Youth Agency reported £5.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The National Youth Agency's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The National Youth Agency based? +
The National Youth Agency's registered contact address is in Leicester (LE1 5SN). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on education.
How much is The National Youth Agency's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The National Youth Agency's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The National Youth Agency's money come from? +
The National Youth Agency reported £5.4m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £5.3m (97%), donations and legacies £99k (2%), investments £37k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The National Youth Agency? +
The register does not record The National Youth Agency as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The National Youth Agency's trustees paid? +
The National Youth Agency's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The National Youth Agency previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The National Youth Agency: National Youth Agency.
When was The National Youth Agency registered as a charity? +
The National Youth Agency was entered on the register on 29 March 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02912597).
How does CharityCompare score The National Youth Agency? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The National Youth Agency's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The National Youth Agency's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.