VOLUNTARY ACTION STRATFORD ON AVON DISTRICT

Registered charity 1067584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER BUREAUX STRATFORD ON AVON DISTRICT

The charity's object and principal activity is to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of communities within the county of Warwickshire, the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and the surrounding areas; in particular, the advancement of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY , DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES, BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER THE COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: STRATFORD ON AVON

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £29,379 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing total available funds to £81,053. The trustees acknowledge that combined income from charitable activities and grants is still inadequate to cover running costs, though they express confidence in stabilizing the financial position. The charity remains adequately funded as at the reporting date with no material uncertainty regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

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 21/03/2024, 50 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Wellschair
• David Roache · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Prosser
• Jeffrey Ewart Rymer
• Kazimierz Aukstolis
• Philip Kettle
• Rebecca Louise Hume

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

Operates in: Solihull · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• VOLUNTARY ACTION LEICESTER income £2.0m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE income £587k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY ACTION LEDBURY & DISTRICT income £254k
• ASHFIELD VOLUNTARY ACTION income £178k
• COMMUNITY ACTION SUFFOLK income £2.0m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION ARUN AND CHICHESTER income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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