Common questions about YMCA George Williams Company's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is YMCA George Williams Company a good charity? +
YMCA George Williams Company scores 55 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 YMCA George Williams Company a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists YMCA George Williams Company as a registered charity (charity number 1044624). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1044624&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 YMCA George Williams Company's charity number? +
YMCA George Williams Company's charity number is 1044624. 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 YMCA George Williams Company's charity rating? +
YMCA George Williams Company scores 55 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 YMCA George Williams Company have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for YMCA George Williams Company. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches YMCA George Williams Company? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of YMCA George Williams Company's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). 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 YMCA George Williams Company'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 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at YMCA George Williams Company. YMCA George Williams Company's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 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 YMCA George Williams Company receive? +
YMCA George Williams Company reported £1.0m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are YMCA George Williams Company's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-12). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is YMCA George Williams Company based? +
YMCA George Williams Company's registered contact address is in London (EC1M 6EH). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on education.
How much is YMCA George Williams Company's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. YMCA George Williams Company's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 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 YMCA George Williams Company's money come from? +
YMCA George Williams Company reported £1m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £491k (49%), charitable activities £262k (26%), trading and fundraising events £241k (24%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to YMCA George Williams Company? +
The register does not record YMCA George Williams Company as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are YMCA George Williams Company's trustees paid? +
YMCA George Williams Company's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was YMCA George Williams Company registered as a charity? +
YMCA George Williams Company was entered on the register on 2 March 1995. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02978406).
How does CharityCompare score YMCA George Williams Company? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in YMCA George Williams Company'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 YMCA George Williams Company'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.