None

Financial penalty

Reprimand, no fine

6 March 2024

Date on the register

UK GDPR

Law relied on

UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)

Charitable and voluntary

Sector

4 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued The Central Young Men's Christian Association with a reprimand on 6 March 2024 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: The Central Young Men's Christian Association
Action: Reprimand
Date published: 6 March 2024
Register year: 2024
Law relied on: UK GDPR
Provisions cited: UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: Charitable and voluntary
ICO register reference: 17356
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 4 of 216 actions (2%)
Actions published that year: 52
Actions under this law: 95
Position on the register: 129th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone
People affected: 166
Entries for this organisation: 2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

The Central Young Men's Christian Association received an ICO reprimand on 6 March 2024. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f) and UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b). A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

No sum is attached to this action. Reprimands are corrective, not financial, which is why The Central Young Men's Christian Association appears on the register without a figure beside it.

The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 166 people affected. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.

The Central Young Men's Christian Association is filed under Charitable and voluntary, which accounts for 4 of the 216 actions on the register (2%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 18 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 129th of 216 actions on the register and the 2nd of 4 in Charitable and voluntary. The Central Young Men's Christian Association appears 2 times on this register: reprimand on 6 March 2024 and monetary penalty on 6 March 2024. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 466 KB in total: "Central YMCA Reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

The Central YMCA sent an email to individuals participating in a programme for people living with HIV using “CC” rather than “BCC”, revealing the email addresses to all recipients. 166 individuals could be identified or potentially identified from their email address. As a result, it could be inferred that these individuals were likely to be living with HIV. The Central YMCA have been fined £7,500 and issued a reprimand.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

UK GDPR

The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.

All 95 register actions under UK GDPR

What a reprimand does

A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.

Published notice

PDFCentral YMCA Reprimand(466 KB)

04Other entries for The Central Young Men's Christian Association

1 further entry on the register
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
The Central Young Men's Christian Association	6 Mar 2024	Monetary penalty	UK GDPR	£7,500	Charitable and voluntary

05Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment	21 Feb 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Charitable and voluntary
The Central Young Men's Christian Association	6 Mar 2024	Monetary penalty	UK GDPR	£7,500	Charitable and voluntary
Chief Constable West Midlands Police	1 Mar 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Criminal justice
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)	13 Mar 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
Dover Harbour Board	15 Mar 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Criminal justice

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2024/04/the-central-young-men-s-christian-association-reprimand/.