Common questions about YMCA North Tyneside's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is YMCA North Tyneside a good charity? +
YMCA North Tyneside scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 89% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) 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 YMCA North Tyneside a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists YMCA North Tyneside as a registered charity (charity number 1011495). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1011495&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 North Tyneside's charity number? +
YMCA North Tyneside's charity number is 1011495. 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 North Tyneside's charity rating? +
YMCA North Tyneside scores 80 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 YMCA North Tyneside have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for YMCA North Tyneside. 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 YMCA North Tyneside? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 89% of YMCA North Tyneside'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 North Tyneside's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 11% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 13% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at YMCA North Tyneside. YMCA North Tyneside's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 North Tyneside receive? +
YMCA North Tyneside reported £4.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are YMCA North Tyneside's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-18). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is YMCA North Tyneside based? +
YMCA North Tyneside's registered contact address is in Newcastle (NE29 0AB). It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is YMCA North Tyneside's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. YMCA North Tyneside's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 North Tyneside's money come from? +
YMCA North Tyneside reported £4.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £4.4m (89%), trading and fundraising events £408k (8%), donations and legacies £65k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to YMCA North Tyneside? +
The register records YMCA North Tyneside as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are YMCA North Tyneside's trustees paid? +
YMCA North Tyneside's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was YMCA North Tyneside registered as a charity? +
YMCA North Tyneside was entered on the register on 29 May 1992. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02703063).
How does CharityCompare score YMCA North Tyneside? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in YMCA North Tyneside'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 North Tyneside'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.