CROYDON VOLUNTARY ACTION

Registered charity 1060157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C V A

CVA provides a wide range of voluntary and community sector (VCS) support services, from community accountancy, fund management, fund raising advice and centre management, to volunteering, training, information, graphic design and networking. CVA also promotes voluntary sector interests to key stakeholders and represents Croydon's Third Sector on Croydon's main strategic partnership bodies.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PRESERVATION OR PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS [ INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ACCOMODATION FOR NECESSITOUS OR AGED PERSONS], AND TO PROMOTE HARMONIOUS COMMUNITY RELATIONS AMONG THE COMMUNITY OF ALL RACES, BELIEFS AND CULTURES.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Croydon, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a loss for the year of £63,347, although excluding a non-cash pension liability movement, the loss was £12,347. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves remain stable at £575,472, which is described as well within the desired level of 25% of annual turnover. The charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 20/06/2024, 141 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Croydon Council — “Funding from Croydon Council” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karim Hemanichair
• CAROLE ELAINE PARNELL
• GHAZALA MIRZA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary MacCauley
• Mike Mulvey
• TERRY ROBERTS

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

Operates in: Croydon · Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 DEVON VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• DEVON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £55k
• CAMBRIDGE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £496k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE BEDFORDSHIRE income £418k
• WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION income £36.6m
• TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.2m
• SEFTON COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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