NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Registered charity 1001635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NACVA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE, NAVCA

Exert influence on government policy through the voice of local voluntary and community organisations.Enable Local Infrastructure Organisations to have strong governance and management and to provide inclusive services that enable voluntary and community organisations to meet the needs of the communities they represent.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND AND IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY,DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted funds of £387,028, which is below the calculated mid-point of its reserves policy target of £170,000 designated funds plus closure liabilities. The trustees have developed an income strategy to address the resulting deficit in free reserves, noting that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jessica Sumnerchair
• Asma Aziz
• Dr Batul Dungarwalla
• Jackie Rosenberg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Garth Hodgkinson · trustee of 6 other charities
• Joyce Christine Blythe
• Kishor Patel
• Lisa Healings
• Lisa Marilyn Goodwin
• Sally Rose Page

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND.

• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• VOLUNTARY & COMMUNITY income £1.2m
• Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action income £1.5m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k
• NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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