RUSHMOOR VOLUNTARY SERVICES

Registered charity 1059794 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rushmoor voluntary services supports voluntary action. We are here to help increase the skills and capacity of local voluntary and community groups. We provide free information, advice and support to enable groups to help people in Farnborough, Aldershot and the surrounding area. We also manage a volunteer centre, home help service, dial a ride transport services and community transport scheme.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES COMPRISING THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE (INCLUDING PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTHAMPTON) AND IN PARTICULAR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT AND BOROUGH OF RUSHMOOR AND IF THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE TRUSTEES) SHALL SO DECIDE, IN ANY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES IMMEDIATELY ADJOINING, WHETHER IN HAMPSHIRE OR SURREY (HEREINAFTER TOGETHER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: HAMPSHIRE INCLUDING PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTHAMPTON

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 · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rushmoor, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £80,649 before investment gains, with unrestricted income falling below expenditure by £25,320. Despite these losses, the trustees report that the financial position remains healthy, supported by net current assets of £226,834 and total reserves of £443,121. The charity's general reserves stood at £189,852, which the trustees note amounts to 2.9 months' total expenditure, slightly below their policy target of three months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Andrew Lloyd Mrchair
• ALAN JOHN THORPE · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALISON COOPER
• DIANE BEVERLEY BEDFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dawn Keenan
• Gary Ghale · trustee of 3 other charities
• Julia Crossley
• Martin Wood
• RICHARD GEORGE HICKMAN

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• VOLUNTARY ACTION ROTHERHAM income £3.3m
• PETERBOROUGH COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £655k
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m
• PERSHORE AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £143k
• MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL income £1.6m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION RUTLAND income £277k

Side by side with its peers

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