SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.)

Registered charity 1071514 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S.C.V.O.

Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is an umbrella organisation which supports and represents voluntary organisations and community groups working in Sandwell and promotes volunteering and resident participation in civic life. SCVO is itself a charitable organisation with more than 500 member organisations and is led and overseen by a board of volunteers drawn from its membership.

Objects

WEST MIDLANDS AREA AND IN PARTICULAR BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT):-1) TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS; 2) WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE GENERALITY THE FOREGOING TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO ORGANISATIONS WITH CHARITABLE OBJECTS IN ORDER TO ASSIST THESE ORGANISATIONS IN THEIR CHARITABLE WORK; AND3) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THESE PURPOSES AND TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS AREA AND IN PARTICULAR BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICTS

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £647 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total resources expended of £1,561,110. Per the trustees' report, the finances are considered sound and well established, supported by unrestricted and designated funds totaling £496,346.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Feltons. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03570517

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.

• LLOYD, Linda — director, appointed 11/06/2026on trustee list
• THOMSON, Nicola — director, appointed 11/06/2026on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Matthew — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• LORIMER, Matthew James — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• SUBAN, Paulette — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• BREAKWELL, Victoria Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• MATENSI-KUBANZA, Jacques — director, appointed 29/09/2020on trustee list
• WATSON, Andrew Philip — director, appointed 20/10/2016on trustee list
• DALE, Claire Louise — director, appointed 06/03/2014on trustee list
• GRANT, Jon Philip — director, appointed 24/11/2011on trustee list
• PATEL, Khatija — director, appointed 05/11/2010on trustee list
• LOAN, Mohammed — director, appointed 01/11/2007on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• Claire Louise Dalechair
• Andrew Watson
• Jacques Matensi-kubanza · trustee of 1 other charity
• Khatija Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Linda Lloyd
• MOHAMMED LOAN
• Matthew Andrews
• Matthew Lorimer
• Nicola Thomson
• Rev JON PHILIP GRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Elizabeth Breakwell

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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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 SWALE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES.

• SWALE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £513k
• THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £9.5m
• VOLUNTARY ACTION - SWINDON income £617k
• SANDWELL CITIZENS ADVOCACY income £230k
• SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £799k
• WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION income £36.6m

Side by side with its peers

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