SUTTON BOROUGH VOLUNTEER BUREAU

Registered charity 1048978 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOLUNTEER CENTRE SUTTON

To advance education protect health relieve poverty sickness and distress and to promote any other charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in the area of benefit by the promotion of a voluntary service and for these purposes but not otherwise the charity shall (a) advise and guide persons willing to volunteer and (b) advise and guide organisations using volunteers.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general funds were £139,510, which the trustees confirm lies within their stated reserves policy of three to six months of core expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £514 for the year, resulting in total net assets of £486,036. The trustees and auditors both concluded that the charity is able 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 audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from over £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 - £69,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Volunteer Centre Sutton (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Gordon Sturton Davieschair
• ANTHONY JOSEPH HAZELDINE CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Antony Pearce
• DEEPAK OHRY
• Ethan James Smith
• Janet Elizabeth Flett Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Adamou
• Sharmin Choudhury
• Vaskor Basak

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

Operates in: Surrey · Sutton

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 NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k
• SLOUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £821k
• SUTTON BOROUGH CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAUX income £1.9m
• PETERBOROUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £655k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.2m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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