HACKNEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Registered charity 1069736 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide capacity building services, training, grants, representation, advocacy, information, engagement and other services to Hackney's voluntary and community sector and those individuals or organisations connected to the sector

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS, (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES BUT NOT OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME AND TO THAT END TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME BETWEEN COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND OTHERS AS APPROPRIATE WITHIN THE SAID AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

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 · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general funds decreased by £114,647 to £269,359, while total reserves stood at £1,310,911. The trustees consider the unrestricted general funds adequate against their policy target of £200,000, which represents approximately three months of unrestricted expenditure plus closure costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hackney Giving (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Boisson — Director of Finance and Resources (source)
• Pepsi Monderoy-James — Director - Communities, Health and Partnerships (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• NHS NE London — “Our supporters NHS NE London” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ajay Singh Dhillon
• Arun Aggarwal
• Catharine Jane Aston
• Jack Griffin
• Jennifer Field
• Jessica Ann Stockford
• Joyclen Brodie-Mends
• Morolayo Eyitayo Aina
• Natalie Roast

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY.

• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £2.0m
• HACKNEY COMMUNITY LAW CENTRE income £697k
• HYNDBURN VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE LTD income £84k
• COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE (MEDWAY) income £732k

Side by side with its peers

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