HALESWORTH VOLUNTEER CENTRE

Registered charity 1001776 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HVC, Halesworth Volunteers, THE VOLUNTEER CENTRE

TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES, AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF.

Objects

TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL WELLBEING, RURAL ISOLATION AND DEPRIVATION AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF.

Area of benefit: HALESWORTH & DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income increased to £111,746 from £76,774 in the prior year, while expenditure rose to £96,624. The charity holds total reserves of £109,816, comprising £13,894 in free unrestricted funds and £43,721 in designated contingency funds, which the trustees note covers six months of expenditure.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HALESWORTH VOLUNTEERS (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN AUSTINchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CLARE LUDWIG
• David Ian Wollweber
• Gareth Eric Ingram
• George John Robson Clark
• Richard Irving Austin
• Steve Chadwick

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES.

• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• THE WELWYN HATFIELD FOYER CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• HUMAN WELFARE INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.8m
• THE I S A CHARITY income £52k
• THE WHITWORTH CENTRE income £140k
• HAMPTON & HAMPTON HILL VOLUNTARY CARE income £202k

Side by side with its peers

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