ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1015988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3569774 · Wikipedia · also known as W R V S, WOMENS ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE, WRVS · also registered in Scotland as SC038924 (OSCR)

The charity delivers practical support through the power of volunteering so that older people can get more out of life and aims to relieve poverty, distress and suffering in various sections of the community, primarily in the UK, by the provision of various services for individuals and such other purposes for the benefit of the community.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS, SUFFERING OR NEED AMONG ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS AND PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING:- (I) ASSISTANCE LARGELY IN KIND AND FACILITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY; (II) ASSISTANCE IN KIND TO VICTIMS OF EMERGENCIES OR DISASTERS; (III) ADVICE AND FACILITIES TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE IN HOSPITAL, IN PRISON OR IN THE ARMED SERVICES AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND (B) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02520413 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• O'BRIEN, John — director, appointed 01/06/2026not on trustee list
• WARNOCK, Lynne — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• MILLS, Robin Ronald — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• SEDDON, Joseph Henry — director, appointed 01/05/2026not on trustee list
• SUTCLIFFE, Brigid Ann — director, appointed 01/02/2026on trustee list
• HUGHES, Dianne Elisabeth — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• ADELEYE, Bamidele Oluwole — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• DUNNE, Patrick Eamonn — director, appointed 08/12/2023not on trustee list
• MUBASSHIR, Sara — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• WADHAM, Nicola Jane Wyndham — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Jeremy Michael — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• BUCKINGHAM, Helen — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• TRENAVIN-BODY, Mark — secretary, appointed 26/02/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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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).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (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 · trustee networks

• 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
• Melissa Allen · trustee of 2 other charities
• 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL UNITED KINGDOM BENEFICENT ASSOCIATION.

• THE ROYAL UNITED KINGDOM BENEFICENT ASSOCIATION income £7.0m
• THE ROYAL YORKSHIRE REGIMENT BENEVOLENT TRUST income £184k
• THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIERS AID SOCIETY income £311k
• ROTARY FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM income £3.4m
• THE VOLUNTARY NETWORK income £703k
• ROYAL VARIETY CHARITY income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.