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

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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

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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
• HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITIES income £227k
• HULL COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES LTD income £2.2m
• SOUTH HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITY income £151k
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WREXHAM income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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