POWYS ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS CYMDEITHAS MUDIADAU GWIRFODDOL POWYS

Registered charity 1069557 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAVO

Enable voluntary & community groups to work more effectively & by working in partnership with others & by responding positively. We seek to strengthen & empower communities throughout Powys. To ensure an effective support structure for voluntary organisations in all fields of activity within Powys that is independent of the statutory sector & directly accountable to local voluntary organisations.

Objects

4(1) To deliver and fulfil any charitable purposes that are consistent with the stated values of the organisation for the benefit of the public, principally but not exclusively in the local government area of Powys and its environs (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) and, in particular, build the capacity of third sector organisations and individuals, and provide them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any such charitable purpose. 4(2) To promote, organise and facilitate co-operation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in the achievement of the above purposes within the area of benefit and to that end to bring together into membership of the Charity persons and organisations engaged in the furtherance of the said purposes within the County of Powys.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF POWYS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,174,437, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of six months' operating costs (£935,712). The charity reported a net income surplus of £136,787 for the year, with total funds carried forward reaching £1,809,655.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by D.R.E. & Co. (Audit) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03522144 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: POWYS ENTERPRISES LTD Companies House 07712021 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gary Mitchell — Chair of the Board (source)
• Clair Swales — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• WOZENCRAFT, Elin — director, appointed 29/11/2024on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Lisa — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• PRICE, David Rowland — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• OWEN ADAMS, Jennifer Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/09/2024not on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Myra — director, appointed 24/10/2023on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Gary — director, appointed 20/11/2020on trustee list
• BURT, Jamie — director, appointed 26/01/2018on trustee list
• POWELL, William Denston, Cllr. — director, appointed 08/11/2016on trustee list
• OWEN, Angela Sian Lloyd — secretary, appointed 05/09/2002

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ROWLAND PRICE · trustee of 4 other charities
• Elin Wozencraft
• Gary Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jamie Burt
• Jennifer Owen Adams
• Lisa Griffiths
• MYRA FRANCIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM DENSTON POWELL

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

Operates in: Powys

Income and spending

Common questions

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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 ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM.

• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• COUNCIL FOR WALES OF VOLUNTARY YOUTH SERVICES CYNGOR CYMREIG Y GWASANAETHAU IEUENCTID GWIRFODDOL income £561k
• COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SUPPORT CONWY income £3.0m
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.2m
• WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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