ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1015988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W R V S, WOMENS ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE, WRVS · also registered in Scotland as SC038924 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains on a sustainable footing with solid foundations for delivering services. However, the filing notes that funding is currently insufficient relative to community needs and that volunteer numbers are declining.

What the accounts disclose

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Voluntary Service (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Bamidele Oluwole Adeleye
• Brigid Ann Sutcliffe
• Dianne Elisabeth Hughes
• Helen Buckingham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Michael Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joe Seddon
• John O'Brien MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynne Warnock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Jane Wyndham Wadham
• Patrick Eamon Dunne OBE
• Robin Mills
• Sara Mubasshir

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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